Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selecting men. Under him, Warner Bros, have acquired a reputation for daring experiments, a reputation largely due to Wallis' eclectic tastes. In recent months, he has pioneered with fantasy (Green Pastures), costume romance (Anthony Adverse), poetic drama (A Midsummer Night's Dream). Less publicized than any other Hollywood executive. Producer Wallis lives on a ranch in the San Fernando Valley, drives a Cadillac to work, plays a little golf on Sunday. He has been known to turn down his wife, Comedian Louise Fazenda. for pictures he did not think she suited. Spasmodic outbreaks of puckish humor shatter...
Deserting his family's potent American Smelting & Refining Co.. M. Robert Guggenheim Jr., 25-year-old nephew of one-time Ambassador to Cuba Harry F. Guggenheim, closed up his Salt Lake City house, went to Hollywood, took a job as call boy for Selznick International Pictures...
...liberty until the baseball season opens next spring. First Baseman Lou Gehrig of the World Champion New York Yankees offered himself to Hollywood film producers for the role of Tarzan, hitherto acted by Swimmers Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe. Dressing up in a leopard skin for Manhattan cameramen, Yankee Gehrig threw out a hairy chest, crowed: "It may sound like a screwy idea to you guys but I'm serious. . . . I've always hustled at everything I've taken up. ... I'd give it all I have. I'd even wrestle lions." Cornered by news...
Harry ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff") Gerguson drove into Hillsboro, Ill. in a 1933 automobile for his first visit to his boyhood home in ten years. Announcing he might soon make a motion picture in Hollywood ("I know everyone there"), he chatted with old friends, bestowed his autograph, took to bed "to catch up on his sleep." Said a Hillsboro hotelman: "We have no criticism of Harry. In fact we glory in his spunk...
Stage Door (by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber; Sam H. Harris, producer). Having thoroughly extolled the pride and excitement of theatrical life when he and Edna Ferber wrote The Royal Family (1927), having thoroughly deflated the parvenu pretense of Hollywood when he and Moss Hart wrote Once in a Lifetime (1930), George Kaufman, collaborating with Miss Ferber again, is compelled to cover some fairly old ground in a fairly old way when he again fights the battle of the drama v. the cinema in Stage Door...