Word: hollywoodized
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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...
...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...
...Congress also held several investigations, one of which brought contempt citations to ten Hollywood writers and producers who refused to answer a question...
...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...
Road to Rio. Crosby, Hope & Lamour stroll down Hollywood's easiest road to laughs (TIME...