Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seats for proven drama lovers were all discussed. But the Theatre's overpowering problem, the one which came in for far greater attention than any other and was worried over, snarled at, solved and despaired of by much the most important people at the convention was, of course, HOLLYWOOD...
Sirs: Your usually accurate and impartial publication has swallowed in one gulp a whole cup full of the juice of."sour grapes." Apparently without making any effort whatever to check his story, you have printed a lengthy letter from James Backton of Hollywood, Calif., with regard to his arrest in Mississippi which does bitter injustice to the people of this expanding Southern Slate (TIME, April...
...that he drop the picture. Goldwyn ignored them, had a new script written by Joseph Anthony, Manuel Seff and David Hertz, hired John Blystone to direct, changed the title from Princess and Pauper to The Woman's Touch and finally to the present one. Commenting on these facts, Hollywood Reporter, cinema trade daily, said: "Sam Goldwyn never has an easy time with any of his endeavors because he goes at them the hard...
Room Service (by John Murray & Allen Boretz; George Abbott, producer) does for shoestring theatrical producing what Producer Abbott's Boy Meets Girl did for Hollywood and his Three Men On A Horse did for horse racing. It pumps its subject full of fun in veterinary doses. Than this pinchbeck legend of Longacre Square, there is no funnier show in town...
United Artists' liveliest members are David Selznick, Walter Wanger and Sam Goldwyn in Hollywood, Alexander Korda in London. In New York last week for conferences were Producers Selznick and Korda, and Producer Selznick's chief backer, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. Chief problem before Selznick International was still: who will play Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind? Last week Producer Selznick failed to substantiate a rumor that Rhett had been assigned to an obscure American actor discovered in British cinema named Ken Duncan. Backer Whitney's wife, Philadelphia's sprightly onetime...