Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lana Turner and Tyrone Power, allegedly the hottest gossip-column romance since Garbo and Stokowski, allowed "a studio spokesman" to inform the world that the thing had dropped dead. Three days later lovelorn Lana arrived in Manhattan from Hollywood with her four-year-old daughter Cheryl (who had a cold), and a new-found friend, grown-up John Alden Talbot (who looked fit as a fiddle). Hollywood Columnist Louella Parsons explained all about it: "Lana said . . . 'The separation . . . has changed Ty. . . . He came back* determined to spend his time fighting Communism...
Humphrey Bogart & wife Lauren Bacall took special pains to explain about themselves and Communism, at a Chicago press conference. Bogart read a prepared statement about their trip to Washington (six weeks ago) to protest the Reds-in-Hollywood investigation: "I am not a Communist . . . I am not sympathetic . . . I see now that my trip was illadvised, foolish and impetuous . . . I acted impetuously and foolishly on the spur of the moment, like I am sure many other American citizens do at many times." Then he put the script down and explained: "We went in green. They beat our brains...
Going Paramount's Way. Hollywood's independent producers have been frightened by the box-office slump and the new British movie tax. Six months ago, Frank Capra's Liberty Films sold out to Paramount Pictures (TIME, May 26). Last week Director Leo McCarey's Rainbow Productions, Inc. made a similar deal. McCarey got $1,000,000 worth of Paramount stock for his 50% interest; another $1,000,000 worth went to his associates, among them Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Hal Roach Jr. Paramount gets the services of McCarey and Norman Z. McLeod plus the future...
...Carlo, Ninotchka, Cluny Brown); of a heart ailment; in Bel-Air, Calif. Lubitsch, whose German-made Gypsy Blood and Passion brought Emil Jannings, Pola Negri and a grace-note style of cinema comedy to the U.S. in 1919, was one of the first European directors to earn-and keep-Hollywood's cash-&-carry respect...
...Exile (Fairbanks; Universal) is one of those shy wildflowers which occasionally spring up almost unnoticed in the Hollywood hothouse. But because of its forced growth, half the freshness is off the bloom...