Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood in making a raid on the ivory tower for its writing talent with officials of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer appealing to Harvard to name its best writers in the Senior clean and offering two of them $50 a week apprentice contracts, according to reports received here...
...five Seniors who, in the opinion of their professors, are most likely to succeed in Hollywood have been chosen for a final interview with a member of the M.G.M. staff later this spring. The reports are not confirmed by officers of the University...
...KEITH MEMORIAL--Little Miss Fixit, alias Deanna Durbin, wends her charming way through another of the average stories Hollywood has bestowed on her, and comes out on top by virtue of a clever script, her own unforced gaiety, and the really remarkable Durbin voice. Those who cringe at the mere mention of sentimentality are not gong to enjoy "Three smart Girls Grow Up," for there are the inevitable "intimate" bedroom scenes, tear-besmirched love affairs, and deep, dark young-girl secrets. But the sentiment is seasoned with humor-as, indeed, the whole film is; Charles Winninger, a hopelessly absentminded Wall...
...UNIVERSITY--The same whitewashed British Lancers--this time in the persons of Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Victor McLaglen; the same vicious tribesmen, now worshippers of the goddess of blood; the same melodramatic story--these form the skeleton of "Gunga Din," Hollywood's latest version of "The Lives of A Bengal Lancer." Yet about this skeleton has been built the flesh of humor, and into the whole has been breathed the breath of life by fast-paced direction and some excellent acting by the principals. Novelty; too, enters, for there is an interesting portrayal by Sam Jaffe of Kipling...
...Negro Jim's long harangues flash of humor arouse the spectator's interest, as, for example, when the King and Huckleberry give a delicious parody on Romeo and Juliet. But such antics are all too infrequent, and even the melodramatic steamboat-race climax fails to save Twain from Hollywood. Funnier is the companion picture, "Blondie Meets the Boss" in which "Baby Dumpling" gives an uproarious imitation of a modern jitterbug...