Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is only death," sighed a dainty dancer at a huge protest rally in Shanghai's New Fairy Forest ballroom last week. A delegation of ten, led by graceful, limpid-eyed Meng Yen, queen of the Metro-Goldwyn (no kin to Hollywood) dance hall, was promptly dispatched to Nanking. From headquarters at the Security and Happiness Hotel, Yen and her henchwomen bore down on the National Economic Council, the Ministries of the Interior and Social affairs, the Legislative Yuan. Functionaries sent word that they were out, so the girls left notes...
Born. To Teresa Wright, 27, starry-eyed cinemactress (Best Years of Our Lives"), and Hollywood Writer Niven Busch, 44 (Duel in the Sun): their second child, first daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Mary Kelly. Weight...
...Guest Star: "... A temperamental Hollywood glamor girl. . . . Her agent demands that the guest star's last three pictures, Zombie in the Oven, Chuck Wagon Clarisse, and She Couldn't Say Maybe, be mentioned in the dialogue...
...Hollywood is in the dreadful predicament of a pauperized nabob suddenly reduced to four limousines. Oldtimers are telling newtimers that the town has never been so scared. Chief apparent reason: the new "confiscatory" British tax, which would rob Hollywood of its comfortable profit margin (TIME...
...much of the real blood, bone and brain of Hollywood, the situation is far from funny. The trades have been full of stories about wholesale firings; panicky studios have cut salaries of office slaveys and minor employees. Big stars, on the other hand, can demand, and get, better prices than ever; for big names are still the best box-office insurance...