Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recording industry has been working overtime in recent weeks to pile up backlogs; there were trade estimates that some companies had built up a supply of unissued records for two or three years, that at least a year's supply of new popular tunes was already transcribed in Hollywood cinema libraries. And there was nothing to prevent repressing from old master records...
Gene Kelly, trying out a new dance routine at home, missed his footing, fell, broke his right ankle, had to bow out of Hollywood's Easter Parade. To help a pal, Fred Astaire, who very loudly removed his dancing shoes last year, happily bounded out of retirement into Kelly's role. Said bald Hoofer Fred about retirement: "I'll always talk about it, but I'll probably never...
...featuring 15 songs he wrote, is still playing to standing-room-only crowds after a year and a half on Broadway. And White Christmas, Berlin's sugary, singable hit (over 6,000,000 records) is about to receive its annual exhuming. At 59, Berlin is off to Hollywood to put the finishing touches on a new movie which will have eight new new Berlin songs and eight old ones. Berlin, who can't read music and plays beer-hall-style piano by ear, tries out his tunes on a trick piano which transposes the only key he knows...
When Cecil B. DeMille went to California in 1913 and rented half a barn in which to film The Squaw Man, there was a village there called Hollywood. But none of the innocents who lived in the village dreamed, in their wildest nightmares, how radically Mr. DeMille and his followers would alter the community...
Writing for the screen, Author James Hilton once remarked, could do a man no harm. It might, he said, actually be a good thing, in keeping him keenly alive to story values. Novelist Hilton has spent the best part of a dozen years in Hollywood since Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips brought him fame and passage from England. Nothing So Strange (the title derives from Daniel Webster: "There is nothing so powerful as truth-and often nothing so strange") is certainly alive to story values-in the movie sense-besides being the Literary Guild selection for November...