Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour work days last week, the mayor of Los Angeles trudged up the 135 steps to his house on a hill high above the Hollywood Bowl. Below him was one of the great man-made sights in America: the lights of Los Angeles, stretching as far as the eye could reach. Fletcher Bowron's eyes gave the familiar scene an instant's glance. Inside his old Spanish-style house, his eyes moistened as he opened a red leather book and read a sheaf of letters in his praise. He had had an unusual day. It was his tenth...
...trial. Two days after her courtroom appearance, Dancer Vickie Evans, who would get a further hearing on her dismissal plea, was picked up in a 3:30 a.m. raid on a gambling joint. The charge: vagrancy. Hinting that she was being persecuted, Vickie cried: "I'm through with Hollywood. I want to go home to Philadelphia." Starlet Lila Leeds was being sued for return of a $1,000 engagement ring by an ex-fiance who had been trying, without success, to get either the ring or Lila. At week's end Mitchum's attorney, Jerry Giesler, drove...
Born. To Jascha Heifetz, 47, Russian-born concert violinist, and second wife Frances Spiegelberg, 37: their first child a son; in Hollywood. Name: Joseph.' Weight...
Died. Gregg Toland, 44, top Hollywood cameraman (The Long Voyage Home The Best Years of Our Lives) famed for his combination of creative imagination and technical skill; of coronary thrombosis; in Los Angeles. Toland introduced revolutionary innovations which contributed to the critical success oi such movies as Citizen Kane and the Oscar-winning Wuthering Heights, just before he died was concentrating on the ultimate focus" lens (which makes both near and far objects equally distinct...
...film projector), which paved the way for the modern movie industry; in Washington. He regarded his invention as "just a side issue" and agreed to let Thomas A. Edison's name be attached to it for commercial reasons (but Armat got rich on the patent rights). Last March Hollywood awarded him a special Oscar for the "debt...