Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard to your reputation for accurate reporting, I cannot accept without a certain amount of skepticism your statement, in TIME, Oct. 18, to the effect that Yankee Outfielder Myril Hoag performs his baseball chores on feet that would do credit to any 5-ft., 100-lb. toe dancer in Hollywood...
Whether or not the Lunts would be good for Hollywood, Hollywood would probably not be very enjoyable for Alfred Lunt. He and his wife are theatre people through & through. Alfred Lunt has worked 30 to 40 weeks a year for 23 years in the theatre, but fears first nights as the devil fears holy water, worries over the size of the audience, suffers tearful agonies if there is a hint that his performance has not been up to his best. One of the consequent duties of faithful, bustling Lawrence Farrell, once his dresser, now his play manager, is to beguile...
...Hollywood police received an alarm that Cinemactor Victor McLaglen had been kidnapped at the point of a gun in front of a filling station. The sheriff's office presently set the police right: the "kidnappers"' were deputy sheriffs, their victim Victor's brother Capt, Sidney Leopold McLaglen, 48, accused of having attempted to extort $20,000 from Millionaire-Sportsman-Photographer Phillip Mattiessen Chancellor...
Conquest (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). For several years Greta Garbo has been toying with the notion of doing a screen play based on the love affair between Napoleon Bonaparte and Marie Countess Walewska of Poland. The notion was in the Hollywood tradition, for most producers like royal historical episodes for an important star. They give the star dignity. If dignity is its purpose, Conquest admirably succeeds. It moves with the fateful and august tread of history itself. Its huge, expensive panorama (running time: 2½ hours, cost: $2,000,000) embraces a quarter of a century and three-quarters of Europe...
...declare the election unconstitutional, and Eddie leaves town on a magic carpet, which he controls by a cantrip-"inflation" to go up, ''deflation" to come down. Eventually the carpet burns away from under him,* and he comes to earth with a thud, wakes to find himself in Hollywood, goggling at the passing stars...