Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Margaret Truman, who tried out on the radio five months ago, announced that she would sing in public for the first time next week. Scene of her debut: the Hollywood Bowl (capacity...
...spare time, he donned overalls and a dirty work cap and helped with the renovations. He installed airconditioning, a new heating system, and new wiring. He chopped the number of apartments down to nine. Mrs. O'Daniel, an enthusiastic amateur decorator, furnished them with a combination of Hollywood modern and antique-shop French...
...Trapped in Hollywood by New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson, Producer Harry Kurnitz detailed "standard equipment" needed by a screenwriter: "A Capehart, a Utrillo, a French poodle, a sun lamp, an exwife, a lawyer (for the ex-wife), an antique Chippendale gag file, some cashmere underdrawers, an empty box at the Hollywood Bowl (it doesn't count if anybody ever sits in it), one friend (preferably getting the same salary he gets)." "A typewriter?" suggested Wilson. Kurnitz shuddered, explained that a writer always dictates...
...University of Havana football squad, drilled with bazookas, flamethrowers and machetes. Their "air power," they figured, would surpass the Dictator's, even though Cuba last week seized part of it: a Catalina flying boat, two Ventura medium bombers and a four-engined Liberator. Despite publicity enough for a Hollywood premiere (TIME, Aug. 11), the Dominican plotters were still preparing...
...afraid that in her new picture, Rio Escondido, a bit-player would steal the show. The bit-player: President Miguel Alemán, playing himself when he presents Maria Felix as a schoolma'am an award for her fight against illiteracy. For Alemán, who knew Hollywood well in pre-presidential days and who is now anxious to give Mexican movies a hand up, it would be a screen debut. Said famed Director "El Indio" Fernandez last week, readying camera, lights and greasepaint: "I'm sure the President won't need any coaching...