Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Victor Mature, 34, Hollywood's sulky-faced "beautiful hunk of man"; and Dorothy Stanford Berry, 28, Pasadena socialite; he for the third time, she for the second; in Yuma, Ariz...
Britons began to realize that the prohibitive tax on Hollywood films (TiME, Aug. 18) was causing a serious shortage of movies in Britain...
...Hollywood had been providing almost three-fourths of Britain's annual film supply. Last week, after the London premiere of Cecil B. DeMille's The Unconquered, there were less than ten more U.S. pictures awaiting release in Britain. "From here in," said one exhibitor, "it's getting a bit sticky." So far, British exhibitors had been able to fill their bills with reissues and vaudeville acts (Danny Kaye was the doubletalk of London), but reissues were already drawing catcalls from the customers, and few British movie palaces are equipped for vaudeville...
...bankers feared what British exhibitors knew: that unless the rulers of Hollywood or Britain-or both-give in, many British movie houses would soon be shut down for lack of films. If that happens, British moviemen fear the worst: nationalization...
...When a Hollywood screenwriter gets tired of cliches, it's news. Last week in the Screen Writer, Scenarist Ken Englund (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) begged his colleagues to please avoid...