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Word: hollywoodized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Says a Hollywood hack: "Yeah, I know what they mean. A very healing guy." His teammate Dick Rodgers says: "He is a dreamer-but a very careful dreamer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Careful Dreamer | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...Inner Conceit. In 1929, Hammerstein was divorced from his first wife and married mahogany-haired Dorothy Blanchard, daughter of an Australian sea captain. With her he answered a syncopated summons from Hollywood. He arrived on the Coast amidst expectant huzzahs. But soon he was weighed in Hollywood's inexplicable scales, and found wanting. One M-G-Mogul passed the verdict around commissaries and conference rooms: "Oscar is a very dear friend of mine, but he can't write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Careful Dreamer | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...Hollywood marked the beginning of a long, curious period of Hammerstein failure. He worked on a dozen musicals between 1930 and 1942, but few were hits. He suffered the lean years stoically. In 1940 he bought, as a sort of refuge, a farm near Doylestown, Pa. People said that Oscar Hammerstein was through; he claims that he was kept going by a "certain inner conceit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Careful Dreamer | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...Praise of Practically Nothing); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A wry-writing favorite of Manhattan's wry-minded literary set in the late '20s, Hoffenstein (who had written, I'd rather listen to a flute in Gotham, than a band in Butte) disappeared into Hollywood as a scenario writer, later explained: "In the movies we writers work our brains to the bone, and what do we get for it? A lousy fortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 20, 1947 | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...crowded Hollywood studio last week, the cameras started shooting a picture called The Boy with the Green Hair. When a spectator asked about the plot, an RKO pressagent replied: "It's terrific. This boy wakes up, see, and he's got green hair. Then everyone who sees him knows there ought to be more, tolerance." But how could a movie possibly be made on that faintly mad kind of a plot? "Well," said the underling, "maybe nobody else could make one out of it. But Dore Schary will pull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boy with Fair Hair | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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