Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Robert A. Taft thinks that if Congressmen look a little silly during "investigations" such as the current one concerning Hollywood's subversives it is only because "a bunch of Communists out for trouble can make anyone look undignified...
Having acted in two pictures himself, Marre is also an ex-agent. He is sure that "Hollywood actors are no more Communists than they are fleas and any writers who are Reds get nowhere." He attended all meetings of the Guild that were said to be Communist-instigated, and affirms that none of the accusations are true...
Albert E. Marre 1L, member of the Screen Writers Guild, sighs wearily when asked whether Hollywood is a nest of Communists, as the House Un-American Affairs Committee proclaims. "You're nobody in Hollywood unless you have money," he says with a touch of cynicism, "and if you have money you're not a Communist...
Marre is sure that there is no political consciousness in Hollywood, and he deplores this fact. "All the producers are interested in is dough," is his firm comment, "and the whole investigation is baseless...
...Hollywood, which is said to be dickering for the novel, should be able to cast this machine-turned story in roughly five minutes. Gregory Peck would be a natural for the lean, dedicated young atomic scientist. Dorothy McGuire would be the girl who cures him of a wartime neurosis and ultimately wins his love; Walter Huston her fabulously wealthy father with entry into every embassy in Europe; and, possibly, Sidney Greenstreet as a Nazi physicist who swipes a valuable discovery from the scientist...