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Word: hollywoodized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wimbledon, besides winning the singles, Kramer teamed with Hollywood's Bob Falkenburg to win the men's doubles. Both the women's singles and doubles (with Queen Mary and Prime Minister Attlee watching in the stands) were all-American finals too. Singles winner: San Francisco's Margaret Osborne, over Miami's Doris Hart, 6-2, 6-4. In the doubles, Doris Hart and Mrs. Patricia Canning Todd beat the defending champions, Miss Osborne and Louise Brough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winning Guests | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...picture is above all an artless fable, done in a color which is deep in the meaning of the scene-- no easy feat--and not something daubed on as a bemused after thought. The Russian cinema here has joined the English and French in challenging Hollywood's fatcat producers simply by making a picture with imagination and directness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 7/11/1947 | See Source »

Laura (by Vera Caspary & George Sklar; produced by H. Clay Blaney in association with S. P. & Roy P. Steckler), like Rebecca, flouted tradition by backing into Broadway from Hollywood. Like Rebecca's, its Broadway sojourn is apt to be brief. The main trouble is that people may not care to see on the stage what they've already seen on the screen, done much better and at a quarter the price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Jul. 7, 1947 | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

Among the sure-fire ingredients were Hollywood names, hints of big-time crime, and some intriguing reports about Bugsy's women friends, one a countess. The papers knew just enough about Bugsy's love affairs to write headlines about "mystery women." There were few solid facts to get in the way of newspaper crime writers. And almost anything could be written about most of those involved. They were not the suing kind; courtroom discussion of their shady reputations was the last thing they wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Inside on Bugsy | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...tried& -trusted clichés came tripping out of typewriters: "gigantic underworld combine"; "imported triggermen"; "multimilliondollar gambling empire"; "mob biggies." Florid Florabel Muir, the New York Daily News's specialist in Hollywood crime, at least tried to be different. She wrote: "Bugsy was cut down amid the overwhelming perfume of blossoming jasmine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Inside on Bugsy | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

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