Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cinemactress Esther Williams prepared a Hollywood opening for her new filling station: searchlights, beer, gardenias-and attendants in dinner jackets...
...Hollywood, Bing Crosby, 44, was named the nation's favorite movie star, according to the annual poll taken by the trade magazine Boxoffice. Bing barely edged out Ingrid Bergman, 31, who had won the top spot for the past two years. Other favorites, in order of their popularity: Gary Cooper, 47, Claudette Colbert, 43, Clark Gable...
...Hollywood tunesmiths were singing the blues. "Every producer wants a song just like some other song. They want another Stardust. We write it for 'em. But it's tough. We have to please the publishers, the song pluggers, the singers, the disc jockeys and the public. But before we even get that far, we have to keep the musical director, the producer, the star and the director happy. If Betty Button's hairdresser doesn't like your stuff, brother, you're dead...
Miss Tatlock's Millions (Paramount) gives Writer-Producer Charles Brackett another chance to practice his favorite sport of skating on dangerously thin ice. Brackett and his fellow worker Billy Wilder are virtually the only Hollywood practitioners, since the penalty for breaking through the ice is almost certain professional death. Brackett and Wilder have already managed to make movies around such dynamite-loaded topics as divorce, alcoholism, adultery-plus-murder, illegitimacy, the black market in Germany...
There is a universal felling among Hollywood writers that no musical is complete without heartbreaking tragedy. The phony tearjerker in "When My Baby Smiles At Me" centers around Dan Dailey. He is cast as an old-time burlesque comic and a man who knows the pleasures of rye whiskey. When he also turns out to be pretty much of a goon around the ladies, he loses his wife. Penitent and thirsty, Mr. Dailey proceeds to booze himself right smack into Bellvue. This kind of involved business takes a lot of heavy weepy acting to pull off and Dan Dailey simply...