Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sued for divorce after 24 years: excitable, English-mangling Hollywood Producer-Director Gregory Ratoff. Actress Eugenie Leontovich charged him with cruelty & desertion...
Emerson-and Gary-had known similar disputes before. By a strike 20 years ago, Emerson students succeeded in having Negroes excluded. Two years ago, Crooner Frank Sinatra flew from Hollywood to Gary to try to persuade Froebel High School students to end a strike over Negro pupils; the bobby-soxers squealed with delight but didn't take any of his line of reasoning. Superintendent Lutz, a strapping six-footer who used to be a football player himself, fared no better last week with the Golden Tornado team. Said one player: "We'll go back to school...
Perhaps it was the neighborhood it is in. Some of the Hollywood Bowl's best friends were accusing it of settling into a state of lucrative mediocrity. To bring the crowds in, the long-suffering Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra had been doing some strange tricks this season, sometimes with only a single rehearsal. It played an all-Gershwin concert under Paul Whiteman's baton; it struggled through an evening of "Music of the Americas" led by Xavier Cugat (who complained bitterly during, a 1946 rehearsal that the orchestra failed to "pay him any respect"); it accompanied Margaret Truman...
...cheapest suits-which sell for $365-Sophie laments that she loses money, making them only as a courtesy to customers. On the other hand, her clothes seldom wear out or go out of style quickly. Recently, while she was visiting the Darryl Zanucks in Hollywood, a party was given for Sophie. Mrs. Zanuck wore an eight-year-old Sophie dress...
...salon prospered, Sophie put out a cheaper ready-to-wear line-the Sophie Originals-which are sold in nine specialty shops around the country for as little as $89. A month ago, Sophie-expanded further. She opened a branch of her salon in Saks's Hollywood store, to the enthusiastic squeals of screen queens and producers' wives. In the first week, the new salon grossed $49,000, much more than Sophie had expected. Hedy Lamarr ordered seven Sophie numbers. Darryl Zanuck told her confidentially: "Our stars simply refuse to wear those outlandish new things." Hollywood had one complaint...