Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each year Library of Congress film reviewers wade through Hollywood's entire annual output, make some careful selections to add to the Library's vast (65 million feet) film collection. Now, after examining the 1,348 features, short subjects and newsreels copyrighted in 1946, the Library has taken its annual pick: 132 features, 176 shorts, all of the 531 newsreels...
...wartime novel, The Brick Foxhole, some U.S. soldiers got drunk on a civilian's liquor, suspected him of being a homosexual, and beat him to death. RKO has changed the civilian (well played by Sam Levene) into a Jew, and Crossfire emerges first in the field in Hollywood's anti-anti-Semitic sweepstakes...
Much of the movie is as brutally effective as a series of kicks in the solar plexus. Especially memorable: its accurately ugly talk, characterization and atmosphere, strung up to high melodramatic tension-one talent in which Hollywood still leads the world. Robert Young does modestly and well as the detective whose job it is to smell out the apparently unmotivated killer. Robert Mitchum has a great deal of laconic authority as the sergeant who holds the harassed gang of soldiers together; Robert Ryan turns in the scariest performance of the season as the over-talkative, pathological Jew-hater. Gloria Grahame...
JOHN DOS PASSOS is working on a novel about New Deal Washington politics, alternately putters about the Library of Congress researching a book on U.S. history. WILLIAM FAULKNER is raising corn and cotton on his Oxford, Miss. farm, writing for Hollywood "only when I run out of money," and working on a new book "off & on." In San Francisco, cocky WILLIAM SAROYAN has a novel in the works titled He Knew the Truth and Was Looking for Something Better,* but added: "This summer I plan to eat watermelons...
...Hollywood's Temptation. A favorite complaint of the writers is that Hollywood's big money is the ruination of many a promising writer. Warren, whose All the King's Men was passed up by the movies until it got the Pulitzer award (and now will fetch Warren up to $200,000), thought that "the odds are probably against a writer doing good work in Hollywood." Added Marquand, a graduate of the slicks: "The slicks and Hollywood and radio-though not so much radio-do their best to stifle ideas and originality. They're very dangerous...