Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the possible exception of Margaret O'Brien, Joan Caulfield is Hollywood's most sexless female luminary. Whatever she lacks in personal appeal she also lacks in acting prowess and case in front of a camera, all of which makes her presence in "Welcome Stranger" highly depressing to Bing Crosby-Barry Fitzgerald purists. There is, however, enough of Crosby at his best to make the picture melodious and entertaining, while Fitzgerald commendably limits his concessions to quaintness, a restraint which keeps "Welcome Stranger," for the most part, from waxing mawkish...
...result is about to enjoy a rags-to-riches life himself. His novel is the Book-of-the-Month Club selection for September (touted by Book Selector John P. Marquand as "head & shoulders . . . above any fiction [we] have examined this year"). It has already been peddled to Hollywood...
...Germany, he used medieval material in The Ugly Duchess, 18th Century Germany in Power (his first U.S. success), 1st Century Rome in his Josephus trilogy. He has worked on Proud Destiny in Santa Monica, where he settled after fleeing Europe in 1940, and the novel smells faintly of the Hollywood atmosphere in which it was composed. The period sets are painstaking, the main characters are photogenic. With no strain on his attention, the reader can savor from one large dish a thousand tidbits of 18th Century custom & morality that he would otherwise have to root for in the garden...
Lana Turner, who may play Madame Bovary in the Hollywood version of Flaubert's famed provincial lady, got a well-meant tribute from Columnist Louella Parsons. "Lana," allowed Lolly, ". . . will be a Madame Bovary born to the part...
Sued: Mrs. Lela Rogers, busy blonde mother of Cinemactress Ginger; for $2,000,000, by Playwright Emmet Lavery and Producer Martin Gosch, who charged libel and slander. Mrs. Rogers' remarks in a radio debate (with Lavery) on Communism in Hollywood, complained the suers, suggested that Lavery's play-to-be, The Gentleman from Athens, was un-American propaganda. One dismaying result, according to Gosch: five of the play's nine prospective backers suddenly backed...