Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Romano and baby daughter Anna Maria down by car from the Mussolini family farm at Forli to say good-by to papa at Bologna. There his special train from Rome paused for family kisses and heartily the Dictator bussed young Mrs. Vittorio Mussolini whose husband was en route to Hollywood (see p. 21). Later at Trento, where in his youth Mussolini was imprisoned, crowds roared "Viva II Duce!" and he shouted back "Viva Trento!" The train chuffed on, stopped for several hours in the mountains during the night to give the Dictator a better chance for sound sleep, finally entered...
...about the same time plump Vittorio Mussolini was explaining to Manhattan reporters that he was in the U. S. to spend 20 days in Hollywood studying production methods as a prelude to his new career: the presidency of an Italian cinema corporation to be known as R.A.M. Films. He said his favorite Hollywood characters are Greta Garbo and Mickey Mouse, there was absolutely nothing political in his visit and he found American women beautiful...
...Vittorio Mussolini, 21, married and a veteran bomber of Ethiopian villages, has been excited about the cinema for over a year. But the original idea for this latest of Fascist corporations belonged to neither Vittorio Mussolini nor Hollywood Producer Hal Roach. It belonged to an earnest Italian, Dr. Renato Senise, nephew of the chief of Rome's secret police and son of an Academician. To Hollywood he went over a year ago fired with his pet idea, the production of full length cinema operas in Italy where tenors are as plentiful as olives. There he met Producer Hal Roach...
...Island, Hawaii, was very beautiful. Volcanoes had scattered lava over two-thirds of the island so that one could not see the land at all. On the other third cattle browsed and sugarcane grew--these on the Parker ranch, owned by a young man who forsook farming for Hollywood, where the producers own everything including their own language and where Ralph Forbes cannot pronounce "promiscuously...
...Hollywood he walked to the simple doorway of a big studio. A group of keen-eyed children holding little books stood about the steps. They stared at him closely, mumbled a few words, even touched his sleeve, and then shouted in unison as he passed through, "Naw, he don't look like Mischa Auer...