Word: hollywoodized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hollywood, Calif...
...Year's Eve, 1932, the Delmars drove from Hollywood to Agua Caliente, lost so much gambling at the Casino that they had to borrow money for gas to drive home. When they came to file their joint income tax return for 1933, Eugene remembered to deduct the $1,200 he had lost at chemin de fer, Vina the $300 she lost at roulette. Under the Revenue Act of 1934 this posed the problem as to whether the Delmars had undertaken their gambling for recreation or profit. Called before the Board of Tax Appeals, chunky Eugene insisted he had gambled...
...Cracked down on the cinema industry's penchant for hooking titles of best sellers to stories that are unfaithful to the originals. Hollywood got away with making Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm a Shirley Temple song-&-dance, Havelock Ellis' Dance of Life a story of burlesque shows. But last week FTC charged Grand National Films with "unfair competition" in releasing a love story under the name In His Steps, after the 1896 religious story of that name by Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon which has sometimes outsold every book but the Bible...
Dietrich out of a job, Miranda is in Hollywood at Paramount, preparing to drape both their mantles over her shapely shoulders. To the late Poet Gabriele D'Annunzio (who had never met her), Miranda was "the most glamorous one in the world. She is to the screen what Duse was to the stage...
Cinema Comedian Eddie Cantor told Washington's Hadassah chapter that Nazis had threatened him by telephone because of his Jewish activities. Said he: "Even in Hollywood where the motion picture industry is run by Jews, I have a bodyguard...