Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco, gave herself a new name-Carole Landis-and got a job as a hula dancer in a cheap nightclub. She began the kind of swift and brutal education a boxer gets in the ring. She sang with a dance band. When she had saved $100 she went to Hollywood to court the cold-eyed janizaries of the motion-picture business...
...Dearest Mommie." But she was recklessly in love again-this time with lean, British-born Actor Rex Harrison, a man Hollywood had nicknamed "Sexy Rexy." One night last week, after Harrison had dined with her at her big Pacific Palisades house, Frances Ridste gulped a few fast highballs and wrote a note to her "Dearest Mommie." She scribbled: "Goodbye, my angel. Pray for me." She signed it, "Your Baby." Then she took a lethal handful of sleeping pills, sank to the bathroom floor, and died...
Warsaw's Atlantic Theater was jammed. Patiently the audience sat through the newsreel and the shorts. Then, instead of the promised Hollywood feature, a substituted picture came on-The Eight-Hundredth Anniversary of Moscow...
...Hollywood's Bette Davis and Charles Laughton squared off over Sir Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (TIME, June 28). Bette agreed with Hearstling Jimmy Starr who said he "didn't like" the movie and that "I'm bored with Shakespeare." Pronounced Laughton: "It saddens me that Hollywood should be made to look even sillier than ever by one of its prominent artists . . . That I have not seen Sir Laurence Olivier's Hamlet is irrelevant...
Beaver-chinned Monty Woolley offered a thought on Hollywood: "The only place in the world where you can fall asleep under a rosebush and freeze to death...