Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their bank accounts, the pair found time to write the book for Billy Rose's Jumbo. Hecht confessed once that the drama was not a suitable medium for him ("I've never been able to compact an idea into three acts"). Last July he referred to Hollywood fame as "a load of clams" at which "a dreaming of his dithyrambs, our gallant Thespis thumbs his nose," few days later signed to write for Cinemogul Samuel Goldwyn at $260,000 annually, Hollywood's highest writing stipend. Soon thereafter he went on leave to try compacting two more ideas...
...weekly organ, Der Stunner, Reichspropagandist Julius Streicher announced that Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich, who has declared her intention of becoming a U. S. citizen, is a traitor to Germany. He moaned: "This German-born film actress has lived so many years with the Hollywood film Jews that she has now become an American citizen." When contemplating citizenship, Cinemactress Dietrich said: "America has been good...
...Passos) to film The Spanish Earth. Returning last June to soundtrack his commentary on the film, he paused long enough to pronounce before the League of American Writers, in his first public speech, a scathing indictment of Fascism, to collect at one private showing of the film in Hollywood $15,000 for Loyalist aid. Though still less "proletarian" than "pro-underdog," this awakened political consciousness has undoubtedly broadened his field of interest, added welcome contemporaneity to his literary life. Last August he was off to Spain again as a correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance - to the scenes...
...legends of Gene Fowler's newspaper life, his bawdy ballads, crotchets and Hollywood adventures, have put his career on the same picturesque level as the subjects of his antic literary works (Shoe the Wild Mare, The Great Mouthpiece, Timber Line). In Salute to Yesterday, his first novel in six years, Author Fowler legend for legend backs his own career well into the shade. A frankly sentimental salute to the brave past, evolving around the doings of a Denver die-hard pioneer, the yarn is calculated to send readers into gales of merriment and reduce them to beery tears. Cinema...
...Captain distributes handbills announcing a counterceremony at which he will dedicate his own tomb to the death of the West. The philanthropist strikes back by demanding Trolley's arrest. From this beginning Author Fowler more than makes good a recent promise that his next novel would have "some Hollywood sequences...