Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood Actress-Ruth Brooks, offered a $25,000 house in a divorce settlement from her dentist husband, insisted instead on taking a four-horse racing stable...
David Work Griffith, 73, wonder man of the early cinema, received an interviewer in his Hollywood hotel room and spoke frankly. "I thought I was a great genius," he recalled wryly. "That was a lot of baloney. . . . There has been no improvement in movies since the old days. . . . They have not improved in stories. I don't know that they've improved in anything. What the modern movie lacks is beauty . . . they have forgotten movement in the moving picture-it's all still and stale...
...Search (MGM) is a kind of picture which Hollywood should be thanked for sponsoring. It was produced in Switzerland and in Occupied Germany, by Lazar (The Last Chance) Wechsler, without benefit of movie marquee names. Its subject-Europe's D.P.s-is alive, urgent and deeply moving...
...gracious sentimentality. The moral complexities of the subject are dealt with so shyly that one can scarcely be sure they are consciously dealt with at all.-Despite its lack of real-life vitality (as in Shoeshine The Search may be a popular success. If so, it will help Hollywood find the courage for more such ventures. A studio willing to go the whole hog in daring-i.e., to tackle so powerful a subject, entrust it to strong men with bold ideas, guarding only against artiness and pretension-would be in serious danger of turning out a major movie...
...simple folk of the congregation are sure it is a miracle. Their priest (Frank Sinatra) is afraid the floor just sagged, and makes a carefully equivocal statement about the incident. But whether or not the miracle is good enough for Mother Church, it is plenty good enough for Hollywood. Arrangements are made to release the picture right away, the receipts to go into the finest hospital money can buy. Dissolve, slowly, into a happy ending...