Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heat in & around Hollywood was intense. At a recording session the slip-horn's balding Tommy Dorsey, 41, knocked the clarinet's balding Benny Goodman, 38, through the music stands. When Goodman arrived late on the job and tootled tootles that weren't in the script, Dorsey got his dander up. The standard Hollywood windmilling followed -and then the standard flubdub to the press. Goodman: "I was just sitting there playing my clarinet when I got hit." Dorsey: "I couldn't punch my way out of a paper...
...blonde, pleasant-looking girl in a summer print dress studied the bulletin board. For the first time she was seeing her name in print the way she had always wanted: Margaret Truman billed as soloist with Eugene Ormandy and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra...
...bravest gets the girl as well as all other earthly honors. But fortunately, there is no attempt at sophistication, and if one allows for the propaganda and the insensivity, the film may come as a breath of fresh air after the emptiness (and often equally insidious propaganda) of Hollywood. The strange and fearsome animal heraldry of the Germans produces something quite different from another patriotic, medieval picture, "Henry V." "Nevsky" never achieves the effect of magnificence of the English movie, and its battle scene is weak in comparison, but the picture of a cruel and unnatural enemy instead...
Once the designer for Los Angeles' swank Bullock's-Wilshire store, Irene, who is married to Hollywood Writer Eliot Gibbons (brother of MGM's art director, Cedric Gibbons) went to M-G-M in 1942, where she heads a staff of more than 200. She will now cut down her M-G-M designing to eight or ten major pictures a year, delegate the rest to her assistants. MGM, anticipating profitable publicity tie-ins from the department stores, is entirely happy about the setup...
Life with Father (Warner) has been treated by Hollywood with the care and respect that is due the biggest hit in the history of the stage. Warner Bros, bought the play for $500,000 down plus a sizable percentage of the gross receipts. In the filming, Father was a major effort in Technicolor fidelity to an original. Every scene added to the cinema version was developed from the original sketches of Clarence Day, and the picture was made under the supervision of Playwright Howard Lindsay and of Mr. Day's widow...