Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duce was quick to understand the political advantage of producing what looked like 100% Italian films with all the advantages of Hollywood imported technicians, cameramen, designers...
...last time Henry Fonda appeared on the Broadway stage he was skippering an Erie Canal boat in The Farmer Takes a Wife. His sleepy-eyed, lethargic charm has since done him yeoman service in Hollywood but somehow seems a bit too somnolent now that he is back in Manhattan on his sailboat. Doris Dalton makes a pleasingly limber heroine...
...number of second-string opera singers. For seven years, Kostelanetz has been a radio conductor, has had his name linked frequently with that of Soprano Lily Pons since he led the orchestra in her first two pictures (I Dream Too Much, That Girl From Paris). Commuting last year between Hollywood and Manhattan by airplane, "Kosty" flew 126,000 miles, earned from four appreciative airlines a silver mug and the title of No. 1 air traveler in the land (TIME, Feb. 1). An accomplished orchestrator, Conductor Kostelanetz was at the same time rated No. 1 in radio popularity. He specializes...
...Manhattan's film appetite seemed temporarily queasy, U. S. fans at large were definitely peckish. Though Hollywood had sent out 62 feature pictures since Aug. 1, theatres everywhere were frantically calling for more. Variety, sympathizing with Hollywood's production problems, headlined that the exhibitors were BURNING UP PIX TOO FAST. The paper implied that exhibitors had brought this famine on themselves by insisting on the double-feature, by not holding over hits for longer runs. Fact remained, however, that last week, when the season should normally be well under way, Hollywood released only one Class-A picture...
...early morning hour, Hollywood police received a call from oldtime Funnyman W. C. Fields, now 58, who said his butler and his secretary, pretty Carlotta Monti, were having a big argument in his hallway. He wanted it stopped. When police arrived at Funnyman Fields's house, he and his secretary were in their rooms and the butler said it was all a mistake. Few minutes later police returned to find all three spatting in the hallway. Howled Funnyman Fields: "It's all right to argue in the daytime, but I want peace and quiet at night. She came...