Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some months ago in a Hollywood café, a prospector let Cinemactor Errol Flynn fondle a gold nugget, sold Flynn on the idea of spending $17,000 to send him in a specially purchased plane to Alaska to work the claim. Last week Hollywood heard what happened: 1) the gold mine was a fake; 2) the prospector had flown the coop; 3) the smashed plane had to be abandoned; 4) Alaska had a newly christened peak. Name: "Flynn's Folly...
...that in which an informer (Gene Lockhart), backing away in terror as his executioners advance, jars a mechanical piano into action, dies to a ragtime tune. But best of all is the smoldering, velvet-voiced, wanton-mouthed femme fatale of Algiers, black-haired, hazel-eyed Viennese Actress Hedy Kiesler (Hollywood name: Hedy Lamarr). Her coming may well presage a renewal of the sultry cinema of Garbo and Dietrich. Hedy has been chiefly famous for her appearance, nude, in the Czechoslovakian film Extase, produced in 1933 by young Director Gustav Machaty as "a sermon in eugenics," exploited wherever U. S. cinema...
Thereafter, for seven months in Hollywood she did no cinema work, living first with Hungarian Ilona Massey, then in a simple, six-room bungalow in Beverly Hills, polishing her English, training her speaking voice, observing Hollywood ways. She swam, batted tennis balls, expertly-played her piano, stole the show at a few beauty-ridden Hollywood parties, to which she was squired at times by Rudy Vallee, Howard Hughes and lately by Actor Reginald Gardiner. When last April Producer Wanger borrowed her from M.G.M. for Algiers, it was discovered that she would require padding to fill out her bust -a deficiency...
When stereoscopic or three-dimensional motion pictures are shown, a missile flying in the projector's direction makes spectators dodge in their seats. Despite this powerful illusion, Hollywood has shown no enthusiasm for three-dimensional pictures. Some time ago it occurred to an inventive cinema cameraman named Joseph Valentine that something simpler might be tried, a suggestion of roundness and solidity although not an actual third dimension -something that would make characters on the screen less flat than animated pancakes. He looked for a simple way to achieve this effect, last week announced to the press that...
...such a simple development-like putting an eraser on the end of a pencil," said Inventor Valentine. Since it costs only $200 to equip a camera with the prism, the price is negligible by Hollywood standards and Mr. Valentine expects that his improvement will come into general...