Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles (The Lost Weekend) Jackson, bestselling scratcher of the seamy side, was called to Hollywood to write the movie script for Feodor Dostoevsky's The Eternal Husband...
British-born Cinemactress Ida Lupino, on the occasion of her becoming a U.S. citizen after some 15 years in & around Hollywood: "I am deeply grateful for the courtesies I have received here...
Grandma Marlene Dietrich (see MILE STONES), asked her opinion of today's Hollywood glamor girls : "There are none...
...screen, this unpretentious yarn has been given standard Hollywood treatment, i.e., the daydreamer is now an heiress and her moderately subtle character is interpreted, with full brass, by rambunctious Betty Hutton. Playing her bookish boy friend, Macdonald Carey behaves more like the president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. All in all, the movie manages to destroy the original play's tenderness and its moral ("facts are better than dreams"*). Dream Girl gets by, with little to spare, on the strength of some frantically energetic scenes showing Betty as a flaming señorita, as a South Seas trollop...
Married. Barbara Jo Walker, 22, Sunday-school-teaching Miss America (1947); and John Vernon Hummel, 24, medical intern; in Memphis. Some 2,000 guests were invited to the wedding; police held back the uninvited, while firemen's searchlights lit the Methodist Church like a Hollywood premi...