Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Cecilia Hoyt De Mille Calvin, 29, daughter of Film Producer Cecil Blount De Mille; to Joseph W. Harper, 34, Manhattan and Hollywood publisher, who ushered at his fiancee's 1930 marriage to Broker Francis Calvin; in Kansas City...
...more than a decade cinemaudiences have known short-tempered, pince-nezed Actor Robert McWade as the crabbiest, crustiest crosspatch that ever foreclosed a mortgage or sicked the dogs on a luckless swain. Last week in Hollywood, 56-year-old Actor McWade, in the oppressive regimentals of a Civil War officer, went wearily over & over a scene with James Stewart in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Benefits Forgot. He couldn't seem to smooth out his lines. Finally he got them straight. Veteran Director Clarence Brown shouted orders, "Cut, save the lights," and rubbed his hands. "Fine," he exulted, "fine...
Robert Louis Stevenson never saw a moving picture. He might not have liked Hollywood's version of his Treasure Island (1934). But he would have had a fit at what somebody had done to his unsexy story in the new Soviet film: transformed Cabin-boy Jim Hawkins into a pretty blonde. The guilty somebody was Boris Z. Shumiatsky, Will Hays of the Soviet cinema industry. Last week Boris Shumiatsky was out of a job. Other charges against him: 1) that in attempting to freight "a bourgeois adventure story" with significance he had introduced the Irish revolutionary movement without considering...
This week, while Happy Landing played five times a day at Manhattan's 6,000-seat Roxy Theatre, Sonja herself was spending at least 35 minutes a night for five nights in her Hollywood Ice Revue on the broad ice patch of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (TIME, Jan. 17). From her personal appearances, which began last month in Chicago and will close late next month in Miami on an especially constructed rink, her net earnings will approximate...
With "Ebb Tide" and "Double Wedding" the University currently presents a perfectly balanced program. In the former, ostensibly a Technicolored South Sea melodrama, Hollywood makes excursion into the realm of the tortured mind. The latter comprises an easy to take William Powell and Myrna Loy combination of slapstick and witty dialogue...