Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, the late Rudolph Valentino was guest of honor at a seance. Some 30 mediums chatted with him while reporters strained in vain to hear. At the guest of honor's request, the mediums said, they sang The Sheik of Araby...
Whether or not you care for the allegory, "Berlin Express" is still an unusual and interesting film. Hollywood has combined its own mastery of technique in moviemaking with the mature semi-documentary approach so often used to advantage in British films and has produced a picture that brings along with its message a realistic portrayal of Germany as it is today...
...this is madness! Clark has a nice wife (Anne Baxter) in the States, and, by all that's Hollywood, he must go back to her. So Lana has to be disposed of finally-but not until her fans have seen plenty of Lana at the operating table, Lana at a Roman bath, Lana in the Battle of the Bulge, Lana on her deathbed...
Author McCoy, a Hollywood hand, keeps firing words out of the side of his mouth as if they were bullets, though often enough when they land they seem more like spitballs. Occasionally, to show he knows his way around a dictionary (or beyond it), he tosses in a word like "propliopithecustian." But most of the time he sticks to the literary method which assumes that the height of human expression can be reached in a monosyllabic grunt...
London film critics and similar wardens of British taste hardly knew which way to look. After years of parapet-watching against the baser sort of Hollywood gangster movies, a gangster film popped into town that was really sending British eyebrows up. What hurt like a slug in the back: No Orchids for Miss Blandish was British-made...