Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. James Hilton, 46, plumpish, British-born, best-selling novelist (Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Lost Horizon) turned Hollywood writer; by onetime Actress Galina Kopineck Hilton, 44 (who told the court: ". . . He could argue much better than I could"); after ten years, no children; in Los Angeles...
...took Hollywood no time at all to make up its mind. Less than 24 hours after Britain's Government levied a new tax which, in effect, will take 75% of the gross earnings of U.S. films, Movie Czar Eric Johnston announced that Britain would get no more of them. Cinemoguls, meeting in a 3½-hour session with Johnston, angrily charged that the tax was confiscatory. "If the British want American pictures," said Johnston, "they shouldn't expect to get a dollar's worth for a quarter...
...negotiating a voluntary reduction in their "take-home" earnings from Britain. They had sent Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Export Association, Inc. (as well as of the Motion Picture Association of America) to London to work out a solution. He came back with a dozen different proposals for Hollywood to consider, including one to hold part of the movie companies' earnings in blocked accounts in England. But before he even submitted them to producers, Britain fired...
...Hollywood took up the challenge-but it did not like the prospect. The industry's take from Britain last year amounted to some $72 million before U.S. taxes. After taxes, it accounted for more than 25% of last year's total net profit of $125 million. To show a profit on some of the high-budget pictures scheduled (e.g., Joan of Lorraine), studios had been counting heavily on a big British draw...
...Want Gable!" But regrets were not confined to Hollywood. As nothing else could, the sudden break in the flow of movies dramatized the full impact of Britain's dollar-economy program on the United Kingdom. Britons pined out loud for Dick Haymes and other Hollywood stars. Clergymen and educators, who commented that "now at least we can keep the King's English pure," were in the minority. In London, an enraged electrician's wife echoed the cries of thousands of British women: "This is the last straw; we have no one like Gable in British pictures...