Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year, against the stern advice of L.B., Irene began looking for a play to produce. When Heartsong flopped, Hollywood smiled knowingly. But Tennessee Williams' agent, who had been popping in to rehearsals to watch Irene work, offered her the chance to produce Streetcar. Says Irene with unashamed pride: "Producers have to be cast just as carefully as actors, you know...
...Choreographer Agnes de Mille and for Dick Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, she had set off a firecracker-string of Broadway successes. She had helped boost many of her onetime players (notably Celeste Holm, Joan McCracken, Bambi Linn, Mary Hatcher, Howard Da Silva, Pamela Britton, Alfred Drake) toward Broadway or Hollywood fame. And to her happy angels (among them: Producers Max Gordon and Lee Shubert, Playwright S. N. Behrman) she had paid...
Born. To Jackie Coogan, 33, Hollywood's No. 1 baby bright-eyes of the '20s (now co-owner of a small movie studio), and third wife Ann McCormack Coogan, 23, ex-nightclub singer: their first child, his second, a daughter; in Glendale, Calif. Name: Joann Dolliver. Weight...
Every month in the U.S., almost 20,000,000 avid readers pore over 20-odd periodicals devoted to the greater glamor of Hollywood's stars. But in recent months the readers have seemed less avid. Movie magazine sales, which rose more than 400% in the 15 years before 1946, slipped sharply when the movie box office slumped last fall and the studios canceled 60% of their movie-magazine advertising...
...Untarnished Idyl. The first movie magazine appeared in 1909. All copy in an inexpensive little throwaway called Motion Picture Stories was supplied free by the studios. In the years before censorship, cinemag pages were triple-dipped in juicy Hollywood scandal. But in the early '303 the tattlers were forcibly tongue-tied; the studios threatened to deny them access to the stars. Says one publisher: "We were licked. Without Jean Harlow stories alone, we'd have lost 10% of our circulation...