Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthdays. Shirley Temple, her tenth, in Hollywood; Princess Elizabeth, her 13th, in London; Adolf Hitler, his soth, in Berlin...
Married. Tyrone Power Jr., 24, sleek cinemacting scion of an Anglo-Irish stage family; and Annabella, 26-year-old French cinemactress (real name: Suzanne Georgette Charpentier) ; in Hollywood. Daughter of a Paris publisher, blonde, pert Annabella got her cinema name and fame as a protégéé of French Director René Clair. Once-widowed, once-divorced Annabella and Bachelor Power became friends last year during the filming of Suez...
...century Romanticism. Especially convincing in the early scenes, Merle Oberon and Lawrence Olivier run the full course of Cathy's and Heathcliff's passion. Mr. Olivier is particularly good as the gypsy lover, catching all of that character's mysterious and dangerous attraction. Maturest entertainment to come out of Hollywood in some time, "Wuthering Heights" does not "aim to please"; it is substantial intellectual fare, a straightforward dramatization of a unique and overwhelmingly powerful story...
Biggest 25? worth of facts & figures the cinema industry could buy last week was a 377-page review of foreign film markets during 1938, issued by the U. S. Department of Commerce. Most comforting figures: despite censorship bans and trade barriers in authoritarian countries, Hollywood lost only 6% of its market abroad, still ruled the 1938 roost by supplying 65% of all the films shown in the world's cinemas. Most disturbing fact: in Esthonia, esthetic censors banned several Hollywood films for mere banality...
Kansas. Outside Hollywood, only one U. S. literary man appeared in the Treasury Department's list of 1937's highest salaried citizens: Dr. Arthur Hertzler, author of the bucolic, best-selling tribute to the struggling country physician, The Horse and Buggy Doctor. Highest salaried man in Kansas in 1937, Dr. Hertzler was president of the Halstead Hospital Association...