Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture's stagey Hollywood premiere, many a private chuckle mingled with the applause for an amusing, well constructed musical, for Hollywood realized that the Warners script writers and director had just let Lolly be herself...
...estate, to Actress Davies the rest. The estate: $1,000 cash, money due him on a $9,000 mining property option, and mining stock of value undetermined. To avoid any misunderstanding, Testator Alvord had attached to his will a picture of the actress. Said Legatee Davies from Hollywood: "I never met Mr. Alvord. ... I appreciated his good opinion of my work. ... I imagine the best thing to do is to give the money to charity or to some public purpose in his name...
...this film, a reworking of the essentials of Allene Corliss' Summer Lightning (cloudbursts & all) aims soberly at the heart where most other cinemakers would aim at the funny bone. Whether the box offices will consider Producer Wanger as nifty a batter as Willie Keeler is another matter. Few Hollywood producers dare strike whimsical notes on the polymorphism of the ant, the physical advantage the paramecium holds over the amoeba. But in the capable hands of Henry Fonda & Joan Bennett, top Wanger stars, and an able cast, / Met My Love A gain's invertebrate allegories, its academic ups & downs...
...Hollywood Hotel (Warner Brothers), is the name of a venerable, no longer pretentious Hollywood hostelry. It is much more widely known, however, as the name of Campbell Soup's weekly radio program in which cinema stars are chattily introduced by No. i Hearst Movie Columnist Louella O. Parsons. The column has national circulation, so in return for mention in the Parsons' jottings, even though their inaccuracy is celebrated, Hollywood obediently sits up and begs. Broadcaster Parsons can get actors on the Campbell hour for nothing, whereas other radio programs lay out large sums for screen names. In return...
...Obedient Husband (by Horace Jackson; produced by Marwell Productions, Inc.). Marwell Productions is the sheerly corporate cloak of Actors Fredric March & wife (Florence Eldridge) and Play Director John Cromwell. For Yr Obedient Husband, Actor March returned to the stage after some ten years in Hollywood, where a prime specialty of his has been rakehellish roles. But in raking through the career of Richard Steele, 18th Century London journalist & man-about-town. Playwright Jackson had failed to scrape together enough action for three acts. What he had written was a costume play on wordy marital misunderstandings. When the critical votes were...