Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was enough for the summer-becalmed tabloids. They sailed into the story with shrieks of joy and thankful indignation. They were sure they saw squads of scantily clad models, actresses and whatnots, running in & out of New York and Hollywood bars, house parties, nightclubs, swimming pools, hotels-hotly pursued by grinning generals and Government administrators. Was this any way for generals to behave...
Next? There was Elliott Roosevelt, of course, and his actress wife, Faye Emerson. Meyer claimed to have picked up over $1,000 worth of their hotel, bar, party and race-track checks. On the distaff side, the names read like theater marquees or the roll call at Hollywood's Central Casting. Actresses Lana Turner, Linda Darnell and Ava Gardner were said to be on the committee's list. A leggy, blonde ex-riveter named Judy Cook declared that she had been paid $100 to put on her swimming act in the Hughes pool for visiting dignitaries. Actress Myrna...
...inscrutable Mr. Hughes, who had been ignoring the whole thing in Hollywood, suddenly got mad. In an open letter to Brewster he blared: "Since you think it is so horrible for anyone to accept my hospitality, why don't you tell about the $1,400 worth of airplane trips you requested and accepted from me? . . . Why not tell that this investigation was really born the day that TWA [in which Hughes is the principal stockholder] first flew the Atlantic . . . the day TWA first challenged the theory that only Juan Trippe's great Pan American Airways had the sacred...
Rachmaninoff: The Bells (Hollywood First Methodist Choir, Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra, Jacques Rachmilovitch conducting; Disc, 8 sides). A somewhat murky musical adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe. Performance: fair...
IHOFA exhibits all the essentials of the standard Hollywood production line model--boy, girl, and rocky road to romance, satisfactorily traversed. But a well turned plot and some fine acting by Victor Moore distinguish it from the run of the mill and transform it into entertainment that will please even the cinematic gourmet...