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Word: hollywoodized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amber, the girl with the bedroom eyes and the roller-coaster mink, moved Francis Cardinal Spellman to a cry of disapproval. The Roman Catholic Legion of Decency had already condemned the Hollywood version of the Kathleen Winsor novel; now the Cardinal himself added a forceful Amen: no Catholic could see it "with a safe conscience." It was only the second time he had condemned a movie (the first was in 1941 when he blasted Two-Faced Woman, with Greta Garbo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...demobilized, learned that Chris was coming to the U.S. He wrote him a friendly challenge: "Don't just visit New York and Washington, like most visitors. Come on out here and see the real U.S." Like most visitors, Arthur Christiansen went to New York and Washington-and to Hollywood, where the cocktail parties were "regal, magnificent." But last week the editor of the world's largest daily newspaper (circ. 3,856,375) paid a visit to his friend Dick Vesey, now a University of Wisconsin journalism student, at his home town of Plymouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Such a Coverage! | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...careful auditioning, Halasz picked singers who looked, as well as sang, the part. Says he: "Generally speaking, you know, Tristan was not 50 years old, nor did Isolde weigh 250 pounds." The production, unhampered by clumsy stage machinery, had pace. Halasz had picked up some ideas from Broadway and Hollywood, including pretty girls in the chorus and the use of screen projections for scenery. The Met has snapped up ten of his singers, including Dorothy Kirsten, Regina Resnik, Polyna Stoska. His performances of off-beat operas like Ariadne auf Naxos, and Eugen Onegin play to near-capacity audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera Without Opulence | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Besides some 25 plays, he has written verse, some short stories, and three novels and a dozen scripts for Hollywood, though his experiences there have been "unhappy, all of them unhappy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Thus shrewdly lured, some 1,200 store executives, buyers and fashion writers from all over the U.S. attended the $17-a-plate champagne supper last week at which Hollywood's "Fashion Futures" were unveiled. What they saw, in Earl Carroll's gaudy Hollywood restaurant, was enough to make some of them wonder who was being kidded. The 98 displays, each by a different designer, ranged in effect from the muffled look of the '90s to the bare look of tiger-skin days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHIONS: Nothing Silly | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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