Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood Producer Dore Schary blasted the new long dresses, announced that actresses in his pictures "will continue to wear clothes which become them." Daily Variety offered a clue to his agitation: millions of dollars of pictures in the film backlogs of U.S. studios are in danger of being irrevocably dated by the change in fashions...
...Hamid Reza Pahlevi, 16-year-old brother of the Shah was not doing so well. The sad-eyed Prince, who played hooky from a U.S. summer school last June and shortly turned up in Paris, disappeared last from a Washington, D.C. school but got bagged again. He entered a Hollywood hotel one midnight, settled down in the lobby when he could not pay in advance. When cops woke him, the Prince produced a passport as identification; but it was not his (he had borrowed it). He was briskly hauled off to the station house. Eventually delivered into the strong hands...
Composer Hanns Eisler earns his living by writing music for the movies. He dislikes both his work and his employers. According to him, ". . . No serious composer writes for the motion pictures for any other than money reasons." Last week Left-Winger Eisler blamed Hollywood's "moguls" for the sad state of film music. "They are afraid of their own shadows, which they mistakenly think is public taste. ... I realize my remarks are a little risky, but I like risky remarks...
Died. Harry Carey, 69, veteran cowboy star of silent movies; of coronary thrombosis; in Los Angeles. Weather-beaten Carey made a Hollywood comeback as a character actor, played in the 1941 Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Ah Wilderness...
This year Hollywood plans to reissue at least 68 pictures, twice as many as last year. Moviegoers are already seeing, or will see, Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford in The Women (1939), Walter Pidgeon in How Green Was My Valley (1941), Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart in Destry Rides Again (1939), Ingrid Bergman and Leslie Howard in Intermezzo (1939) and Paul Muni in Scarface...