Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...material: the first half of Morton Thompson's front page column in the Hollywood Citizen-News. The agency: Owner-Editor Harlan Guyant Palmer. Reason: It was so complimentary to virtuous Judge Palmer it brought "unexplainable tears" to his eyes. During a bitter Guild strike five months ago the Citizen-News printed an entire column by Thompson describing "the despicable traits" of Editor Palmer...
...Hollywood, all actors in all major studios last week began to punch time clocks to enable them to collect time-and-a-half pay for overtime after 48 hours a week, according to the Screen Actors Guild's new agreement with producers...
...even better illustration of this belief is Wellman's own career. Respectably reared in quiet Brookline, Mass., he left high school to sell chocolates and woolen goods, failing miserably at both. After the War he went to Hollywood, persuaded Douglas Fairbanks to give him a job acting in The Knickerbocker Buckaroo. After William Wellman took one good look at himself on the screen he decided he was an even worse actor than salesman, became a messenger boy for Samuel Goldwyn. When General Pershing was being shown around the lot one day he spied Wellman, whom he had known when...
Born. To Ernst Lubitsch, 46, famed cinema director (Bluebeard's Eighth Wife); and his second wife, onetime Cinemactress and Script Writer Vivian Gave: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood...
...Hollywood Producer Walt Disney announced that he had bought the screen rights to Peter Pan; learned that Singers Adriana Caselotti and Harry Stockwell, who sang the roles respectively of Snow White and Prince Charming, in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, were suing him for $300,000, as their share of the profits from the sale of phonograph records...