Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood was grand. And Ring Cros-by-you know I worked with him in 'Pennies From Heaven'--why I've known Ring for so long, I've watched him grow. He's almost like one of my boys and he can swing too, though they never give him much of a chance. Armstrong almost blushed when complimented on his loss of weight. "Yeah I guess the Hollywood diet must have got me. Why, when I was in Boston a year ago I had a brown suit that was tight like a drum. But I don't seem to be able...
When You're in Love (Columbia). The ingenuity with which Hollywood scenarists arrange opportunities for the heroines of musical comedies to perform their function of singing is matched only by the lack of ingenuity with which they observe the tradition that all musical comedy heroines must be singers by profession. Now Grace Moore, as an Australian diva named Louise Fuller, yodels a Jerome Kern-Dorothy Fields song called The Whistling Boy when a crowd of urchins follows her into a rehearsal hall. When her husband (Gary Grant), whom she has acquired as a convenient way of complying with...
...each afternoon, because talent scouts for the movies and stage are coming up to watch the play. Aroused by the polished entertainment of last year's "The Lid's Off"' they will be looking for men like John Davis Lodge, male load in the 1926 production and currently in Hollywood. One player has already been offered screen tests, while tunes such as "Someday" and "Come Across" are often heard in night clubs and radio programs...
...movie bandwagon and directed over one hundred short talkies for Warner Brothers. A 5800 mile drive through the stock theatres of New England last summer ended two years of talent scouting for Twentieth Century - Fox, and after whipping "Come Across" into shape he will head straight for Hollywood. When he took "Anna Christie" to London in 1923 he picked up a lot of information about the English stage which will be put to use in the trans-oceanic episodes of the Pudding show...
...boards a ship for a vacation cruise. On the steamer he meets Phyllis (Elissa Landi), author of many of his scripts, and together they get involved in the murder of a wealthy man and the disappearance of his famous diamond. Somehow murder on shipboard is a favorite sport with Hollywood producers, and this one leads Philip and Phyllis in and out of staterooms for fifteen torturous minutes...