Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Snorted the New York Times's critic Olin Downes: "This is a Hollywood concerto. . . . The melodies are ordinary and sentimental in character; the facility of the writing is matched by the mediocrity of the ideas." Quipped the New York Sun's Irving Kolodin: "More corn than gold...
...Hollywood had been good to Erich Wolfgang Korngold. But was Hollywood good...
...hurls it, rich with cyanic rancors, in the face of sham wherever he sees it. Of a male celebrity who strode into church one midwinter morning wearing sun glasses, Allen grated: "He's afraid God might recognize him and ask him for an autograph." Of a snob-noxious Hollywood character traveling with his "secretary," he murmured acidly: "He's traveling à la tart...
Beyond the Moon. In 1943, Fred began to get dizzy spells. Diagnosis: hypertension. He got orders to quit radio. While he was resting, he took his third trip to the other side of the moon (Hollywood), made the third of his four pictures (Thanks a Million, Sally, Irene and Mary, Love Thy Neighbor, It's in the Bag), and a few observations: "California is a wonderful place to live-if you're an orange"; "Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars"; "An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood...
Divorced. Conrad Nagel, 50, blond-toupeed, cinemacting veteran; by his second wife, Lynn Marrick Nagel, 24, Hollywood starlet; after 15 months; in Los Angeles...