Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David Oliver Selznick, directed by John Cromwell, written by Jo Swerling and acted, principally, by James Stewart and Carole Lombard. Which of these deserves most credit for the indisputable fact that this mundane, domestic chronicle has more dramatic impact than all the hurricanes, sandstorms and earthquakes manufactured in Hollywood last season is a mystery which does not demand solution. What does demand solution is why, when Hollywood can make pictures as sound as Made for Each Other, it practically never does...
...Universal). Confronted with the task of making a picture in which W. C. Fields is the star, most Hollywood producers harass themselves and Mr. Fields by trying to chivy him into playing the part written for him, instead of letting him alone in his own classic interpretation of W. C. Fields. In this case, Producer Lester Cowan shrewdly devised a new technique. Instead of paying his stars a salary, he persuaded them to work on a profit-sharing basis, had Fields write his own story and let matters take their course. The result was that the shooting...
...whole project was accompanied by riotous lack of discipline, and its completion was the signal for two of the liveliest Hollywood parties of the season, one given by Edgar John Bergen for the whole cast, and the other by the Masquers Club in honor of Mr. Fields. At the latter, Dr. Leo Rosten, making a Carnegie Corporation survey of the cinema industry, paid touching tribute to the guest of honor: "Any man who hates babies and dogs can't be all bad." Not the least astonishing thing about You Can't Cheat an Honest Man is that...
...gripping, scandalous, tragic The Children's Hour. But for years before that New Orleans-born, Manhattan-bred Playwright Hellman had piled up theatrical experience as pressagent and playreader. The Children's Hour was scarcely off on its 20-month run when Lillian Hellman was rushed to Hollywood. There she adapted such cinema hits as The Dark Angel, These Three (the movie version of The Children's Hour), Dead End. In 1936 her second play, Days to Come, opened on Broadway, got a poor press, closed...
...became great pals with Rolf Diels, the Chief of the Secret Police, who looked like a Hollywood gangster, with "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, who swore that she was just the woman Hitler needed. (He introduced her to the Führer, but nothing came of it.) She attended the Reichstag trial, other social events that were much duller...