Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago. New York State police rediscovered La Verne Moore in Hollywood. Calif, using the alias of John Montague. In Hollywood, La Verne Moore's reticence about his past, his phenomenal golf and his high spirits had combined to make him a highly publicized social lion, crony of cinemactors like Bing Crosby. Oliver Hardy and Guy Kibbee (TIME. July 19). Identified by his fingerprints, La Verne Moore was extradited and brought back to the Adirondack summer resort of Elizabethtown, N. Y. for trial. First stage in the case of People of New York v. La Verne Moore took place...
Vogues of 1938 (Walter Wanger) can be chalked up as a minor Hollywood triumph on two counts: 1) it is the most enticing example of Technicolor yet produced; 2) it has apparently found a formula for transforming the fashion show from a boring newsreel short to a full-length revue that both men and women can sit through without squirming. Incidentally it not only glorifies the U. S. girl (its showgirls include such well-known models as Jaeckel's Betty Wyman, Lucky Strike's and Chesterfield's Ida Vollmar) and U. S. fashions but implies that...
...women of Hollywood have, by and large, never dressed for each other or for men, but for the camera, which makes more extravagant demands than either. Result is that many a smart cinemagoer is as likely as not to snigger at the West Coast's idea of haute couture. The greater credit, therefore, to producer Walter Wanger that in building a show on women's styles, he managed to make the styles sufficiently sound to be featured in a recent issue of Vogue magazine. Taking their cue from those unsung, expert, wholesale dress manufacturers of Manhattan...
Gangway (Gaumont-British) is the third British musical in little more than a year to tackle the task of making Jessie Matthews as popular in the U. S. as she is in England. A slavish imitation of the current Hollywood musical comedy formula, Gangway sometimes comes close to clicking, gives one more indication that British cinema can as yet boast few native screen writers within trailing distance of Hollywood's best, but that British producers are still trying to pick up the trail...
...Warner Brothers announced that Salomon would be impersonated by Muni next, but it was shortly revealed that Muni had turned down the role on the ground that U. S. citizens might object to the implication that a Jew was the master mind behind the Father of His Country. Nevertheless, Hollywood could not believe he would be reading parts if he seriously meant to retire...