Word: hollywoodized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...PHILADELPHIA-where $20,000 in bogus $10 bills has recently been passed- WCAU-TV televised a counterfeit and a genuine ten-dollar bill (Hollywood is forced by law to photograph nothing but stage money). With Secret Service sanction, a commentator pointed out the differences (e.g., on the counterfeit, Hamilton's hair is lighter and whiter). WCAU has also televised pictures of wanted criminals, on the theory, says News Director Harold L. Hadley, that "guys who are wanted will frequent taprooms that have television." Fellow barflies are expected to turn them...
...Symphony at eight. Sammy, 35, was brought up on the sidewalks of New York, set a hooky record at Seward Park High School"which still stands." He was already a successful lyricist at 28 (Shoe Shine Boy, Bei Mir Bist Du Schon) when he and Jule teamed up in Hollywood...
...Skelton, Cass Daley, Virginia Mayo. The orchestra is largely recruited from the St. Louis Symphony, and the producers, directors and designers are professionals from Broadway and Hollywood...
...real boycott of British films? No, said Sir Alexander Korda's U.S. representative, but some U.S. distributors were using the threat of boycotts and pickets as an excuse not to show British pictures. He thought that it was "retaliation, perhaps only subconscious," for British restrictions on Hollywood films. "Until the trouble blows over," Korda announced last week, he will not release in the U.S. four films already scheduled for showing: Bonnie Prince Charlie, Fallen Idol, The Winslow Boy and The Small Back 'Room...
Woven through this melodrama is the complex story of the psychiatrist himself, his professional work and private fevers. He is neither miracle man nor mad scientist, as Hollywood so often presents men of his trade. The audience can respect his talents while fearing for his fallibility. There is ham in him, and cold conceit, as he changes face and voice from one patient to the next. He mistreats his wife and dallies with a blonde (Christine Norden), unhappily wondering why he can't be as useful to himself as he is to some of his patients. In short...