Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indicated no concern that its own action might add to the box-office appeal of the picture, and at no time complained that matters were being delayed. At my request, Judge Stephen Jackson, who is assistant to Joseph Breen, director of the Motion Picture Code Authority, came on from Hollywood to act as an impartial negotiator. I also had Otto Preminger, director of the picture, fly on from California as soon as I received word of the Legion's action, and he participated in discussions on possible changes...
Deanna Durbin, 25, flouted Hollywood tradition by announcing the breakup of her marriage in a barely audible voice. (The marriage, to 45-year-old Scenarist Felix Jackson, was her second.) Deanna had her attorney murmur simply: "There is no difficulty ... of any particular public interest. Each of them declines to discuss the matter...
...than in the hope of beating anybody, and helped entertain on the 19th hole. His guests were handpicked: the amateurs by him, the pros by their own P.G.A. Bing's 86 amateurs included some good golfers, some good friends, some who were both. From Hollywood came Randolph Scott, John Hodiak, Dennis O'Keefe and Amos 'n' Andy's Freeman (Amos) Gosden, who are better than average players. Next to Augusta's Masters' Tournament, which is the great Bobby Jones's personal party, Bing's pro-amateur championship was the stop most...
...city newspaper and a big-city girl). Du Mont continued with Singer Sylvie St. Claire, who relaxed on a sofa with a telephone and urged a melancholy baby to come to her. At 8:15., Du Mont offered a poor full-length movie-almost the only type that jealous Hollywood will allow its suspected rival...
Seldom has Hollywood been so frightened about its future. In a panicky wave of economy, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had cut its payroll 40%-wiping out one entire echelon of executives. Columbia Pictures had fired 25% of its employees, and RKO's Gower Street studio had been dark for ten days. This week the entire industry was shooting only 25 pictures. Even though the first of the year is always a low point, this was not quite half as many pictures as were under way at the same time last year...