Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busiest men in Hollywood last week was James ("Jimmy") Cagney, No. 1 portrayer of cinema toughs. The sympathy for the underdog which Actor Cagney developed in his youth on Manhattan's East Side was given point and direction by the late, crusading Lincoln Steffens. Long famed as one of Hollywood's brightest Pinks, Jimmy Cagney's public deeds have been nothing more daring than an occasional contribution to strikers and active leadership in the Screen Actors' Guild. But last week he and such other notably social-conscious cinemactors as Fredric March, Chester Morris, Franchot Tone, Joan...
That evening some 4,000 grimly serious actors, not yet informed of the agreement, swarmed to Hollywood's barnlike American Legion Stadium with minds made up about how to mark the strike ballots they were handed at the door. Loud were the cheers when President Montgomery, dog-tired but icy-cool, announced the settlement. Since formal contracts had yet to be signed, and other producers, notably Warner Brothers, had yet to be brought to terms, a strike vote was taken. Bandy-legged Boris Karloff hustled around with a ballot box which he somehow managed to make suggest an infernal...
Make Way for Tomorrow (Paramount). The fact that a good story simply told is worth more than all the box-office names, production numbers and expensive sets in Hollywood is one of those plain truths which the cinema industry finds hardest to assimilate. Consequently, if Make Way for Tomorrow makes a fortune for its producers, Hollywood can be expected to exhibit amazement. No amazement is in order. Taking a subject about which everyone has speculated—the financial insecurity of old age—the picture examines the case of Barkley Cooper (Victor Moore) and his wife Lucy (Beulah Bondi). Adapted by Vina...
Married. Natalie Cantor, 20, second of Funnyman Eddie Cantor's five daughters; and Joseph Lewis Metzger, 22, Hollywood antique dealer; in Los Angeles...
Died. Wilhelm Henie. 65, Oslo fur dealer, father of Sonja Henie, world's greatest figure skater; of a bloodclot in the lung, following an abdominal operation; in Hollywood...