Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thank you for the fine article on Canada's sweetheart. . . . Let us hope that the 12,500,000 prayers you mention tack on as a postscript the request that she never go to Hollywood. More power to Barbara Ann, and kudos to TIME for a most interesting story...
Treasure is the sort of picture most intelligent filmgoers have been hungry for, a hunger which has been sated only by the foreign markets of late. . . . I have never been a Bogart fan, but it is tremendously gratifying to realize that Hollywood's evil star system can sometimes be defeated and that an erstwhile painfully stylized tough-guy hero can play an unsympathetic weakling and make him an absorbing character study...
...Upon your high recommendation, I went to see Treasure, and witnessed a more remarkable study of human nature than I had believed Hollywood capable of. The tragedy of the whole thing was that the great majority of the audience seemed to be under the impression that the three Marx Brothers had the principal roles...
...seems that the one fault of this film is in being so far above Hollywood's normal output that it confuses most audiences. I guess Director Huston's one neglected point was that of having explanatory pamphlets issued for lobby distribution...
...Placement Office's third job parley will also outline vocations in educational and technical movies, without stressing the Hollywood angle...