Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better, the Mexican enthusiasm. The Protocol Division's patient, able Stanley Woodward was worried. He called on the Army, Navy, Marines, school officials, the Washington Board of Trade and even New York's master greeter, Grover Whalen, to plan a spectacle that Latin American and even Hollywood itself might whistle...
Then he got ready to swing off on a four-week, coast-to-coast speaking tour. For this, the advance noise was already terrific. Hollywood Bowl officials started most of it by canceling a Wallace speech on the shaky excuse that they did not want the 20,000-seat amphitheater used as "a springboard for ideologies foreign to the majority." This was too much even for the arch-conservative Los Angeles Times. While Wallace backers, delighted at the publicity, signed up the 18,000-seat Gilmore Stadium, the Times editorialized: "We should not gag a bray...
Crowned: Cinemactress Alexis Smith, by roly-poly California Sculptor Yucca Salamunich. who says she has The Sexiest Head in Hollywood. Judy Garland, Salamunich decided, has The Least Sexy Head. Excerpt from the admiring sculptor's informal citation to Miss Smith: "She has the perfect North American head. Those high cheekbones and yunnnh! That nose! Long and straight. Passionate women always have long, straight noses...
...young man. After a month of persistent trying, however, Markle finally broke down the Welles defenses, persuaded his target to listen to a recorded parody of Welles in action. Impressed, Orson let the youngster repeat the parody on his Mercury Sum mer Theater program and invited Markle to Hollywood to do a screen version of Oscar Wilde's Salome. The production fell through, but Markle is disgusted with movies, anyway, and with "that terrible place" (Hollywood). If movies could be made in "civilized" New York, he thinks he might have another go at them...
Married. Sterling Hayden, 31, blond Hollywood stalwart ex-marine captain who ran guns to Tito for the OSS; and Betty de Noon, 25, blonde Pasadena, Calif, socialite; both for the second time (his first: Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll); in Santa Barbara, Calif...