Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reactions at children's matinees in 142 theatres with a total weekly attendance of 150,000. Of British children, 83% like newsreels, 94% like military & naval scenes, 89% like shots of royalty, 88% dislike foreign dictators. British children's favorite stars in order of their popularity are Hollywood's Buck Jones, Shirley Temple, Jane Withers, Tim McCoy...
...connoisseurs of spy melodrama, they rate as classics, and play steady revival engagements in Manhattan and London. Hitchcock lives in a walk-up flat in London, spends his weekends gardening at his cottage in Surrey. Now 38, he has been directing English pictures for 14 years, will work in Hollywood for the first time next February when he goes there to make Titanic and Rebecca for David Selznick...
Last week, previewed in Hollywood, critics found it notable chiefly 1) because, as might have been expected, its story, of which the title is an adequate synopsis, appears to be a composite photograph of the innumerable other pictures on the same theme and 2) because, as might not have been expected, it is first-rate entertainment. Typical product of Producer Goldwyn's 16 authors: Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon, kissing...
...HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Nov. 15--Hedy Lamarr, glamorous film star, has been invited to attend the Harvard-Yale football game which will be held Saturday, Joseph Mulhavey, her publicity director said here today...
...every hamburger he ever ate, his nutty relatives-the subjects of most of his previous stories-are the subjects of about half of the 35 stories in The Trouble With Tigers. The other half-exhibiting Saroyan's fiercest inhaling and exhaling to date-consists of stories about Hollywood and essays on the contemporary idiocy of Man in general. Besides working last year as a cinema writer, Saroyan evidently studied up on Dostoyevsky and Whitman...