Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted to stay on the stage. The old man sadly took the violin, broke it across his knee. In later years the Weisenfreunds were partially recompensed by having their other two sons become musicians. Joseph is now a musical arranger at Warner Brothers' studios. Al is also in Hollywood, looking for a job as a violinist...
...change him much. He did not gamble or drink or imitate the ways of the Gentiles. For several years he had been married to a slender, dark-eyed girl named Bella Finkel who had played opposite him in the Yiddish Theatre. After We Americans, Muni Weisenfreund went to Hollywood where, renamed Paul Muni, he made The Valiant and Seven Faces, neither of which won him cinema fame. He returned to Broadway in 1931 for the smash success Counsellor-at-Law, and after that made his first hit movie, Scarface. Since then he has made I Am a Fugitive from...
Worrier. No other actor in Hollywood worries so much about his work as Paul Muni. He believes that in order to give a fine performance he must hypnotize himself into the mood of the role. On the set he does not laugh or tell stories or play mumblety-peg, as other actors do to while away the intervals of their work. He sits apart brooding. Before taking a role he studies all the research which the writers used in preparing the script. Once he went to a Warner Brothers producer and complained: "I don't understand this role...
...water was turned on, the geraniums flew into the air. He sold the ranch last spring for a hilltop home in Palos Verde, where he swims in his pool, plays with his dog and looks through a telescope at ships on the Pacific. He is never seen in Hollywood nightspots and takes no part in actors' disputes. He attended the mass meeting of the Screen Actors Guild last May but sat among the extras and left by the side door. He wears black hats turned up all the way around like a rabbi's, occasionally a beret...
...completion of Zola, Muni began a long vacation. In October he and his wife will start on a trip round the world, avoiding war zones. During shooting of Zola, Muni gave several intimations that Zola's epitaph in the film might mark his own permanent farewell to Hollywood. The possibility of his retirement at his career's crest is not taken seriously at movie colony dinner tables. Last week Muni seemed to be of two minds. "I am going away for a while," he said, "and stay until I'm sick of it. If I like...