Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime across the continent in Hollywood a shutdown of the nation's major cinema studios remained all week in prospect as 6,000 painters, make-up men & scenic artists and members of eight other crafts, allied in Federated Motion Picture Crafts, continued on strike for union recognition and closed shops (TIME, May 10). With the help of strikebreakers, cameras ground away as usual, but over Hollywood hung the ominous air of strike-torn Detroit. Strikers, working in three shifts of 1,000 pickets each, shuffled around the studios, scuffled with non-strikers, tried to intimidate actors and others passing...
Robert Montgomery, who startled admirers of his customary flip performances last week by appearing as a pathological murderer in Night Must Fall (see p. 67). promptly stepped into the news in still another role-as president of Hollywood's Screen Actors' Guild, Inc. Rumors of stirring social consciousness among cinema stars, notably pert little Jimmy Cagney, have been emerging from Hollywood more & more frequently of late. Prime outward evidence is the 5,600-strong Guild, to which virtually all film actors and actresses belong. Last week's strike faced the Guild with its first big test...
Turn Off The Moon (Paramount), first effort of cinema's only woman producer, Mrs. Fanchon Simon, was not planned in the grand manner. By all the gauges Hollywood uses to measure a picture's importance, such as cast names, expensive sets and the fame of writers and directors, it should have remained merely a modest little musical for double bills. By a rare cinematic accident, it successfully refutes its sales bracket. Its gags and tunes are good, its patter fast. Above all it has the unprefigured value which is generated in a musical when most of the participants...
...coast, then it was going all over the U. S.-52 units a year. For the young Wolfs had had a bright idea. Small cinema houses wanted to stage shows but could not afford them. Fanchon & Marco offered units at a reasonable price, equipped them and rehearsed them in Hollywood, sent them out complete with costumes, scenery and songs. Their studio on Sunset Boulevard near Western became a factory for mass production of 15-minute shows. They needed bright youngsters who would work cheap. Janet Gaynor swung on a chandelier from the stage of Loew's State...
...wrote the story from which Author Jacques Deval (Tovarich) adapted the screen play, acts his fat part with the enthusiasm it deserves, sets the pace for the rest of a cast of which each member is performing a specialty in which he is tops. Good shot: Adolphe Menjou, Hollywood's ablest exponent of the art of playing maitre d' hotel since The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926), introducing a dish of wild strawberries, brought from Algeria by special plane...