Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oldtime Alberta ranchers like Edward Waines, 87, have watched the Calgary Stampede grow through the years from a purely local show, which featured only straight ranch contests, to a commercialized, supercolossal spectacle. They have not been too happy about it. Last week, when Hollywood's Eagle Lion movie company moved into town to use this year's Stampede as background for a new horse opera in cinecolor, old man Waines gave up. "They're exploiting the cowboys just for the almighty dollar," he said...
Stardust. Though overshadowed by their doubles and by the Stampede itself, Hollywood's stars managed'to get some attention. Heroine Leslie gave costume prizes to Indians. Jack Oakie strode around town dressed in a bright orange shirt and other cowboy trappings. Hero James Craig played up to the bobby-soxers. To prove that "all Hollywood cowboys are not the drugstore type," Craig threatened to compete in the Stampede. But this would have been carrying verisimilitude too far. Director Rogell spiked the idea...
Born in Manhattan, Loesser was a fast man with a rhyme when he was ten, but had to wait 17 years for his first successes. Among them: the lyrics for Hoagy Carmichael's Small Fry and Two Sleepy People. In Hollywood, he has made big money writing movie music...
...award. William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (Goldwyn) was honored as the best story (by Robert E. Sherwood from a MacKinlay Kantor novel), and Myrna Loy was named the year's best actress for her work in the picture. Brussels' equivalent to Hollywood's Oscar, a bronze statuette of St. Michel, went to René Clair's French Le Silence Est d'Or (Man About Town), starring Maurice Chevalier. A special award went to Roberto (Open City) Rossellini's Italian Paisa (Country Town). French Gerard Philipe was honored...
Married. Joan Blondell, 37, full-blown, blonde cinemactress; and Michael Todd, 40, Hollywood and Broadway producer (Up in Central Park); she for the third time (her No. 2: Cinemactor Dick Powell), he for the second; in Las Vegas...