Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After gossip columnists haughtily cried "Bad taste!" Ciro's nightclub in Hollywood banned Comic Peter Lind Hayes's newest skit. Hayes and his wife had been imitating President Truman and daughter Margaret. Hayes played the Missouri Waltz and pretended to sell neckties. His wife kept crying, "You're living in the past!" Said Hayes, answering his critics: "We tried it at the hardware convention in Cincinnati and they kept coming back night after night...
Faye Emerson Roosevelt made her first bow on Broadway after seven years in Hollywood, caught the critical eyes focused on Molnar's The Play's the Thing. The Times's Brooks Atkinson noted her "high spirit and versatility"; the Herald Tribune's Howard Barnes found her "attractive and promising"; the Daily News's John Chapman, "entirely acceptable"; PM's Louis Kronenberger, "Fetching to look at... pleasant to listen to." Mother-in-Law Eleanor Roosevelt, back from London just in time to watch from the second row, told Columnist Earl Wilson that Faye looked real...
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...member of the Communist party?" They refused on the grounds that the question and the hearings were unconstitutionally trying to invade the rights, privileges, and immunity of the American citizen. When it was all over these ten were cited for contempt, fired from their jobs, and blacklisted in Hollywood; all this on the basis of unproved accusations and hearsay evidence...
Perhaps more significant than the fate of these ten is the fate of American movies. The motion pictures under fire were some of the better productions of the poor Hollywood crop. After this demonstration of muscle by the Thomas committee, the normally conservative movie makers, fearful of their delicate public relations, will become increasingly hesitant to make intelligent movies about any controversial problems. Stripped of all its garnishing this becomes though control, and thought control in the hands of men such as Mr. Thomas is more than dangerous, it is suicidal...