Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Michael Bartlett, whose even tenor was a mainstay of Princeton Triangle shows 13 years back, sings with as much grace and gusto as pretty Kitty Carlisle. Hampered in Hollywood by being only half-photogenic (one profile is much handsomer than the other), in Three Waltzes Singer Bartlett shows his full face. Costumes, by Connie De Pinna, are good all around...
...Brother Buddy, her old dancing partner, remains in Hollywood...
...wife and his brother and his brother's wife own the business-the nepotist corporate structure which is another Hollywood characteristic. But neither the corporate structure, nor Mr. Disney's indefatigability, nor the 75 animators, nor the $75,000 camera, nor the $800,000 plant, nor the $2,000,000 gross explain the great Quality X in Walt Disney, Inc., the thing which in the past decade has sent thousands of feet of wonderful little animals and fairybook people dancing out into the world-people and animals whose appeal is so profound and so pervasive that they...
Nevertheless, when no less a savant than Aldous Huxley went to Hollywood, he tried to find out just what made Walt Disney do the kind of work he does. Mr. Disney was not much help. "Hell, Doc," he said, knitting his eloquent brows, "I don't know. We just try to make a good picture. And then the professors come along and tell us what...
...Dorothy Day Wendell; produced by George Busbar and John Tuerk). Broadway still half believes that there's a broken heart for every light on it, still cultivates the legend of the gallant trouper who smiles through tears. In Tell Me, Pretty Maiden, Doris Nolan, home from such Hollywood productions as The Man I Many and As Good As Married, squanders her talents on the part of a gallant actress, Margo Dare. The persons who get told are a bevy of reporters who interview the lustrous Margo at a cocktail party arranged by her pressagent, Otto Hulett. While Margo tells...