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Word: hollywoodized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Bobbsey Twins. In Hollywood, mentioning Kinsey was one of the few ways to break up a gin rummy game. Radio comedians, ever on the alert against censorship, tested the water with such gags as: "He's at the awkward age-you know, too old for the Bobbsey Twins and too young for the Kinsey report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: How to Stop Gin Rummy | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...year in show business with two outstanding Broadway hits and two of Hollywood's most-talked-about films to his credit, was 38-year-old Director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time News Quiz: The Time News Quiz, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...Congress also held several investigations, one of which brought contempt citations to ten Hollywood writers and producers who refused to answer a question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time News Quiz: The Time News Quiz, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...White Sister (1923). Since Miss Gish became a nun in the picture, all Colman could do was look frustrated, but he did that so handsomely that his movie career was assured. During the middle and late '20s he and the late John Gilbert ran neck & neck as Hollywood's foremost leading men. Gilbert had the edge on heavy-breathing love scenes and Colman on elegance and versatility. Colman was equally proficient in beglamored melodrama (Beau Geste, which he still considers his best picture) and in drawing-room comedy (the late Ernst Lubitsch's silently epigrammatic version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Road to Rio. Crosby, Hope & Lamour stroll down Hollywood's easiest road to laughs (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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