Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the mails, after your super-scandal-mongering of the Mary Astor-George Kaufman case [TIME, Aug. iyj. What, please, is the news value of such an article? FREDERICK W. STERN Cincinnati, Ohio Sexy but not obscene, the Astor case testimony had this news value : It was the biggest Hollywood scandal in 14 years...
After embarrassing the cinema industry for three weeks with its display of dirty doings, Hollywood's Astor Case was brought to a decent close last week. To Actress Mary Astor, suing her onetime husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, for full custody of their 4-year-old daughter, the Los Angeles Superior Court awarded the child for nine months a year. Before rendering his decision, Judge Goodwin J. Knight called for Miss Astor's diary in which she recorded her irregular love life and which Dr. Thorpe's lawyers tried to use obliquely to disqualify...
...case proved to be Playwright George S. Kaufman (Dinner at Eight, Of Thee I Sing). Depicted as the "Perfect Lover" in Actress Astor's memoirs, Kaufman had ignored a subpoena to testify. Before a warrant for his arrest could be served on him, he had secretly fled from Hollywood to Manhattan. "There won't be any settlement for Kaufman," fumed Judge Knight. "I'll put him away for a while to cool off if he ever comes back into the jurisdiction of this court! He could write quite a play about life in jail!" In Manhattan...
...welcomes them. Helped by U. S. lighting and No. 28 makeup, Simone Simon is more embraceable than in her last French picture to reach the U. S. (Lac aux Dames), but Girls' Dormitory, as first made, ended without her being in the arms of Marshall. After the Hollywood preview, 125 suggestion cards, distributed to the audience, were filled out with requests for a new ending. Present fadeout shows them kissing...
...would succeed in putting the whole story into a single picture. As revealed last week, the answer is extremely simple. Warner Brothers do not succeed in anything of the sort because they do not try. Although the picture is twice as long (2 hr. 19 min.), as an average Hollywood production, it carries Author Allen's celebrated adventurer (Fredric March) through only about two-thirds of his career, leaves its climax to the imagination or to a sequel...