Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arrest That Woman (by Maxine Alton; A. H. Woods, producer). A large but dowdy production with a numerous but inept cast, this unprofessional melodrama appears to be merely a rough preliminary sketch pointed toward a later and more finished film version. Several of the roles are undertaken by minor Hollywood actors, whose performances are about on a par with what is expected in a Works Progress Administration show. A reformed prostitute shoots her high-born but estranged father when he refuses to give her money for her true love, who has been forced to steal $1,000 to send...
...world in style like Miss Jacobs and Mrs. Moody. Alice Marble took his advice, improved so rapidly that she won the California State Girls' title at 16. This brought her to the attention of Eleanor Tennant who, third ranking U. S. player in 1920, had since become Hollywood's best known coach. When she was 19 Alice Marble left her home in San Francisco, went to live with Coach Tennant who hired her as secretary, taught her not only a new forehand but also numerology, bodybuilding, cooking, how to act in the company of screen celebrities...
...committee composed of Illustrators James Montgomery Flagg and Russell Patterson, Vincent Trotter of Paramount Pictures' Art Department, George B. Petty of Esquire, Photographer Hal Phyfe. Black-haired, blue-eyed Rose Veronica Coyle, 22, of Yeadon, Pa. became "Miss America of 1936," won a trip by air to Hollywood and a screen test.* Convulsively clutching her loving-cup, Rose Veronica Coyle beamed, squealed: "I'm just thrilled to death...
...Loane West would not appear on it in the future nor that he had not deserved a similar honor in the past. He was a star end on the California football team of 1917. Then 27, he left college to join the Army. After the War, he became a Hollywood cinemactor, had a bit part as recently as 1934 as head jailer in Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra. Since 1932 Chief Loane West has built up a profitable sideline of giving lectures at $25 apiece on "Indian health methods," consisting of simple living, daily exercises, rough foods. He recommends...