Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broadway debut. Day after the opening of this knickknack by the author of Kiss and Tell, a shower of glittering adjectives ("captivating," "enchanting," "beguiling") descended on gay, winsome, 22-year-old blonde Ingenue June Lockhart (daughter of stage & screen's Gene and Kathleen Lockhart). Already nicely launched in Hollywood (All This and Heaven Too, Meet Me in St. Louis'), June is pretty certainly Broadway's young thing of the year...
...little old lady in the crisp white Mother Hubbard and blue gingham sunbonnet looked out of place in Palm Springs, California's gold-plated winter playground for Hollywood stars and Eastern industrialists. So did her horse-drawn buckboard with its "Nellie's Boarding House" sign. Nevertheless, as she rode along Palm Canyon Drive with her two middle-aged sons by her side, the towns people lined the street to wave. They were well aware that without Nellie Coffman the town might not have been what it is today...
...entrance by Korda, the Hungarian-born producer who first proved to Britain that it could compete with Hollywood, was well planned. He had tested the market a month ago with the first postwar production of his new company, an unpretentious thriller called A Man About the House, launched without benefit of the Korda name. It was grossing as much as first-run U.S. pictures, Korda said...
...that the British movie industry was not doing its job of making up for U.S. films kept out by the new tax (TIME, Aug. 18), Sir Alexander said: "There exists no crisis in the British film-producing industry. . . . Twenty-four so-called A pictures are in active production in Hollywood ... 20 in British studios. ... So long as the British moviemaker retains his creative independence ... he will win through...
...Budapest journalist who started making pictures in an abandoned shed shortly after World War I, Korda reached the top in Europe, went to Hollywood, and returned after five years-a failure. Three years later, in London, with actors he promised to pay later, he turned out The Private Life of Henry VIII and won the support of Britain's powerful Prudential Assurance Co., Ltd. Prudential staked his London Film Productions, Ltd. with cash to turn out topflight pictures (Catherine the Great, Rembrandt, Scarlet Pimpernel...