Word: hollywoodized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...making sure that the show was so bad it closed immediately. The method worked perfectly until the unforeseen accident of a hit put the impresario in the miserable position of having to pay 85% of its profits to all its various angels simultaneously. As rewritten by a battery of Hollywood scenarists, this idea is somehow boiled down to the skeleton for a succession of vaudeville turns most of which are as familiar as the players who take part in them. Best sketch, taken from Life Begins at 8:40 (1934): Milton Berle as a stock speculator hysterically caught...
...when his friends found his Greek dialect monologs at parties hilariously funny, decided to merchandise his specialty. Response to a few local broadcasts encouraged him to apply for a spot on the nationwide radio hour of Funnyman Cantor, whom he had met socially. From radio, he went to Hollywood. "Parkyakarkus" is an adaptation of the informal invitation with which Dr. Einstein habitually greeted callers at his office during his business career. In New Faces he functions as a mysterious friend of the scalawag producer, executes nothing resembling his press-release pose (see cut, p. 30) with the vaudeville team...
...Supported by five of Hollywood's mightiest cutups, the dainty blonde star clowns delightfully through lively, sparkling, hilarious situations which are distinguished by their brisk pace, their smart dialogue...
...Maxwell Anderson's Night Over Taos, Franz Werfel's Juarez and Maximilian, David Belasco's Girl of the Golden West and Rose of the Rancho. Two are new: Miracle of the Swallows, a play about San Juan Capistrano's annual bird visitors by Ramon Romero, Hollywood correspondent for Spanish-language magazines; and Miner's Gold, a '49er show by Agnes Peterson, a Los Angeles school board official. Founder Brown will play the title role in Montezuma. Young Onslow Stevens, who with Gloria Stuart is the Playhouse's gift to the films, will come...
Married. Mary Pickford, 44, onetime "America's Sweetheart''; to Charles ("Buddy") Rogers. 32, onetime ''Deb's Darling''; in Hollywood. Her first husband: Owen Moore. Her second: Douglas Fairbanks. Because hitherto unmarried Bridegroom Rogers had a "sentimental aversion" to being married in the longtime Pickford-Fairbanks home, "Pickfair," the ceremony was performed on the estate of MGM Executive Louis Lighten. Only ten close friends witnessed the ceremony, but the reception at "Pickfair" was attended...