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Word: hollywoodized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Cinemactress Maureen ("Tarzan's bride") O'Sullivan and Scenarist John Farrow: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Michael Damion Farrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...story book version of that trial generally sounds slightly McGuffey; Hollywood's vast inflation of it is louder and funnier and off its historical base in almost every particular. Cinemauthor Lamar Trotti last week explained: "When I was working as a reporter on the Atlanta Georgian, I covered a murder trial and became very interested in the accused man and his family. I've always wanted to do a story about them, and this is it. . . . It's really only a whodunit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...against the Hog Wallow boys by hitching the anchor loop of the rope to a wagon, dances with Mary Todd, generally establishes himself as a capable, dryly humorous, lonely citizen. Then the trial takes over, for three reels of howling prairie jurisprudence, wry Lincoln homespun and Hollywood crossexamination. Only at the fade-out is there a hint that this gangly local yokel is headed anywhere. "Just going up the hill a piece," says he, parting from a companion and up he goes, into a lowering thunderstorm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

First of a series of Lincoln films in what Hollywood freely predicts will be Lincoln's greatest year, Young Mr. Lincoln was spotlighted during production by a restraining suit. Robert Emmet Sherwood and his partners in Playwrights Producing Co. Inc. filed the suit on the ground that there was more than coincidence in the similarity in name to Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Broadway hit to be filmed this summer with Raymond Massey). Darryl Zanuck parried that by producing a memo proving that Lincoln was in his thoughts as far back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...screen when he had Grace Moore trill in One Night of Love, thus setting the fashion for innumerable musical films. Since all works of Gilbert & Sullivan (except The Pirates of Penzance) are in the public domain in the U. S., he could easily have produced The Mikado in Hollywood without paying royalties to the D'Oyly Carte Company, which owns the English rights. Instead, he went abroad to collaborate with Producer Toye, who got the D'Oyly Carte's wholehearted cooperation. The Mikado cost about $1,000,000. Newcomers to Gilbert & Sullivan in its cast are pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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