Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he was found after a long hunt it was in no mountain hideout, no rebel garret, no desert shack-but in the toils of a wealthy and voluptuous Hollywood has-been, Lia Tora by name. Last week Senhor Valverde was back in jail, with a probable 17-year hard-labor sentence (instead of the previous eight and one-half) before him. Also in jail, charged with furnishing him asylum, was pretty Lia Tora. And Brazil's men of justice were scratching their heads over what hard labor to set her soft, shapely arms a-doing for a possible...
...courtesy of Kellogg's Corn Flakes, has been capping the great Sunday night radio vaudeville show. For its contracted year on the air, The Circle will cost more than $2,000,000, or about as much as it would cost (retail) to pave the way from Manhattan to Hollywood with boxes of Corn Flakes. Of this colossal pile, about $15,000 goes for its hour of radio time each week (10-11 EST) and some $25,000 a week for talent. Last week The Circle was having trouble with its expensive segments...
Born. To Margaret Brooke ("Maggie") Sullavan, 27, stage & screen star (Stage Door, Three Comrades) ; and Screen Agent Leland Hayward; a daughter, their second child; in Hollywood. Name: Bridget...
Luckily the leading parts are not so affected by Hollywood cutting as are some of the minor ones. Clark Gable, as the philosophical hoofer, Harry Van, gives one of the best performances of his career, since the part is ideally suited to his happy-go-lucky Americanism. Because she modeled her Russian Countess entirely too much on Lynn Fontanne's characterization, Norma Shearer is not so successful. Her Irene lacks the spontaneity of Gable's Harry Van. Yet with all its short-comings, "Idiot's Delight" is sustained by its immediacy of theme and powerful conflict of points of view...
...Disney's triumphs are what I call twentieth-century folk art," Feild told an enthusiastic audience. "His cartoons present perhaps the only universal art form in history. My efforts can only be for the greater enjoyment of his work." Feild spent much of last summer in Hollywood, California, studying the new science in talking pictures fostered by Disney...