Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Cinemactress Mary Pickford ("America's Sweetheart"), 43, divorced wife of Douglas Fairbanks Sr.; and Charles ("Buddy") Rogers ("America's Boy Friend"), 32, curly-haired cinemactor; in Hollywood...
...Director Richard Rosson's discovery, when he went to the north woods to photograph lumberjacks riding falling trees or breaking up log jams, that these daring practices, familiar to preceding generations of lumberjacks, are scorned by contemporaries as unsophisticated generosity to their employers. He had to return to Hollywood to recruit a crew of fake lumberjacks with enough courage to do what real lumberjacks are supposed to do. Included in the uproar concerning production of Come and Get It was the story which billed Actress Andrea Leeds as Hollywood's "kiss champion'' after she had spent...
Died. Charles Partlow ("Chic") Sale, 51, rube vaudevillian and author (The Specialist); of lobar pneumonia; in Hollywood. Originally a bewhiskered mimic of old hicks, he was famed for his earthy, hayseed wit, his tearful portrayal of a G.A.R. veteran scuffling down the road to the poorhouse. Proud of his resemblance to Abraham Lincoln, he made the privy theatrically acceptable...
...John Crump; Gustav Blum, producer). Author Crump's last effort produced on Broadway was a play called Hipper's Holiday, which lasted four performances. Having doubtless observed that Once in a Lifetime, Twentieth Century, Personal Appearance and Boy Meets Girl, which dealt laughably with the foibles of Hollywood, were well received, Mr. Crump has written a play about a heavily-accented cinemagnate who gets into great and voluble trouble because his blonde star skips out in the middle of a picture, leaving him with a "nut" (overhead) of $10,000 per day. Don't Look Now differs...
...Wedding Present" Cary Grant and Joan Bennett again prove that they are a good team. It is a highly-recommended picture. The action revolves about two star reporters trying to scoop each other. Paramount drags in the stock Hollywood conception of a newspaper: there is the hard-boiled city editor, played by George Bancroft and there is the constant occurrence of three alarm fires and murders attended by cynical, wise-cracking reporters. What distinguishes the movie is the sure, smart acting of Bennett and Grant...