Word: hollywoodized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Boats some of the most beautiful girls in town, to wit: "the eight dancing debutantes," who came directly to Boston from a year at the Hollywood in New York. Coley Worth's Orchestra with Hal Cutler, a fast moving review and a delightfully intimate atmosphere explainwhy the Blue Room has always been a favorite nocturnal rendezvous for Harvard...
When Terry (Margaret Sullavan), the bravest little unemployed ingenue living at the shabby Foot-Lights Club, says that she would not go to Hollywood and have her art put up in a can like soup even for an ermine swimming pool, she is not bringing any fresh arguments to bear on the long-mooted question of superiority be tween stage and screen. And when her radical, playwriting friend (Richard Kendrick), having decided after a Broad way success to go West and write for and not about the masses, tells Terry that the theatre is an obsolete art form which...
Actress Sullavan, whose few metropolitan stage parts disclosed her as a young lady with a strained voice and a forced, girlish delivery, has not changed much in the three years she has been in Hollywood...
...this decorous good feeling was a cigar-puffing 64-year-old onetime Glasgow solicitor named John Maxwell, who had just upset the biggest film deal of the year-to make an even bigger one. Mr. Maxwell had as good as bought Gaumont-British, thereby discomfiting two resounding Hollywood names, the brothers Nicholas and Joseph Schenck...
According to its articles of association, Gaumont control must remain in British hands. It was not quite clear where real control would rest when the Schencks and Ostrers finished their shuffling, but the patriotic assumption was that Hollywood would be a great deal deeper in Gaumont than before. As summer passed it became evident that the Ostrer-Schenck deal was not jelling...