Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many respects, Joy to the World, is a much better imitation of Hollywood than an indictment. It digs just as deep into the trash basket, and just as often; and while urging Hollywood not to be cowardly, at no time does it make Broadway seem brave. But the show is very well produced. Alfred Drake makes an excellent Soren, and in her first Broadway role, Hollywood's Marsha Hunt looks and proves delightful. Playwright Scott gets in some funny cracks and lively scuffles, and knows what Hollywood is like; but every time his findings bump up against his formula...
Millard Sheets's watercolors look a little like illustrations for a travel folder, but they have a dash about them, and unmistakable crowd-appeal. Hollywood's art lovers, from the Edward G. Robinsons to the Johnny Mercers, turned out in style one night last week to open Sheets's new show: views of Mexican mountains and market places whipped up from sketches he had made on a three-week tour in January. Highballs in hand (it was that kind of opening), the stars rubbed elbows with local critics and museum directors...
...range and of his success. On the walls were menu covers for a steamship line, designs for his pastel-painted airports, drawings done as a LIFE war artist in India, silk-screen prints, lithographs and photographs of buildings on which he had collaborated, sculptures done for a chichi Hollywood bar, a huge restaurant mural in mosaic. "People think of me as a watercolorist," says Sheets, "because I've painted so many. Watercolors can be done in a hurry...
Died. Leo F. Forbstein, 55, dean of motion picture musical directors, music supervisor of Warner Bros, for two decades; of a heart ailment; in Hollywood, Calif...
Indefatigable Hollywood last week put on its 20th annual Academy Award ceremony. As usual, there was the most brilliant possible fanfare, and very little happened that was surprising...