Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cecil B. DeMille, Hollywood's colossal historian, had not lost his touch as he cast his upcoming masterwork, Samson and Delilah. For the girl he hired Hedy Lamarr; for the boy, Victor Mature...
Senator Owen Brewster of Maine got a nibble from Hollywood the day after he made a speech attacking Planemaker...
Last week Hollywood was eying television with deep interest: ¶ The first top-rank movie star to get into TV on a contract basis was Oscar Winner Ronald Colman. For an undisclosed sum, said Producer Ben Finney, Colman had agreed to narrate and act in 26 half-hour telefilms: 13 Charles Dickens stories, and 13 by Robert Louis Stevenson. Colman may also narrate a series of O. Henry dramas...
...Producer Hal Roach decided to turn his Hollywood lot into a production center for other telefilm companies. He will also invest $3,000,000 in telefilms of his own devising...
Audiences howl at such simplehearted reminders of the days when screen comedy was really crude and sometimes brilliant. If anyone could give them back the genuine thing, he might soon be the richest man in Hollywood...