Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most important news of the week, no doubt, was the President's call for a special session of Congress. The most sensational, unquestionably, was the Hollywood hearing in Washington. In the long run, it might turn out that the sensational, for once, had the greater significance. It concerned Americans just as much and possibly more than aid to Europe and the price of eggs...
Like the first day's witnesses, Cinemactor Menjou was perfectly willing to name names (TIME, Oct. 27) of those who were Hollywood's Reds. He repeated the names of Director John Cromwell and Scripter John Howard Lawson, though he could not be sure that they actually carried party cards. Twirling his mustache, sipping artfully from a glass of water, mugging for the camera men, he admitted that Communism in Hollywood was on the decline, mainly because so many people were becoming aware of its dangers. But there were still Reds aplenty, and he had a surefire, if somewhat...
...known to her fans as Little Meow, spends five hours a day on her makeup. In other respects, she is as unlike a Hollywood actress as could be. A recent interview illustrates some of the differences. "What do you think of the love letters written you by admirers?" the reporter asked. "They are funny," said...
Chinese Cinemogul Yen is not given to Hollywood hyperbole like "sensational" and "terrific." When he first signed the slinky, unknown actress Li Lihua, he told his friends simply: "I am setting out a beautiful tree that money drops from." He was right. Li's first movie packed them in. Last week her latest, The Barber Takes a Wife (TIME, Aug. 4), was breaking all Shanghai box-office records, giving every promise of being the biggest cinematic smash China had ever seen...
...Hollywood, Producer Sam Goldwyn got good news: the U.S. Treasury reported that he had overpaid his 1945 income tax by $383,4071n Manhattan, gourd-shaped John Jacob Astor, 35, well-known for his ancestors, lay abed with cracked vertebrae, after skidding on a polished floor and bumping downstairs...