Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood last week, Howard Robard Hughes was throwing his weight around at RKO. The more literate observers were reminded of that memorable scene in Victor Hugo's Ninety-Three, when a huge cannon breaks loose on the gun deck of a ship in a rough...
Dore Schary, RKO's earnest, gifted executive vice president in charge of production, was out (TIME, July 12). Like a thousand bumblebees in a clover field, the buzz of Hollywood speculation hung on the question of who would succeed Schary. Secretive Howard Hughes would not say. "It will be," he said, "someone you least suspect, a shocker...
...Hollywood had known something of the meteoric Howard Hughes story for two decades. He had always been an independent-a lone wolf, unpredictable and exasperatingly successful most of the time. Now he had stepped into control of a top studio. After trying (characteristically) to get the stock for two points less than the market, he had paid Atlas Corp.'s Floyd B. Odium a whacking $8,825,690 for 929,020 shares...
...date, it has played only about 40% of its original contracts. In the face of derisive snorts from highbrow critics, Hughes firmly believes that, if distribution obstacles can be overcome, The Outlaw will bring in one of the fattest yields of all time. He may be right. Hollywood has learned not to sell Howard Hughes short...
...Frustration. Two big things happened in 1924-25. Hughes Sr. suddenly died, and Howard got married, at a swank wedding in Houston, to Ella Rice (of the same family that founded Rice Institute). Four years later, they were divorced. Hughes was already in Hollywood, bringing starlets -home in droves. Ella got a million dollar settlement. Hughes now resents any mention of his marriage; he would rather be regarded as the world's most ineligible bachelor. People who know him well say firmly that he will never marry again...