Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many other ways, the U.S. was settling down. If World War II was to be followed by something approximating the jazz age, it was not yet in sight. Nightclub business was off everywhere-from Manhattan's Stork to Hollywood's Mocambo. The great migrations and frenzied travel stirred up by war were almost at an end. There were fewer marriages and fewer divorces in the first months of 1947 than there had been...
Aside from "Lady in the Lake's" intrinsic worth, Robert Montgomery deserves a pat on the back for breaking away from Hollywood formula method. It is a pity he chose the most conventional of movie plots, and so could not make the novelty and the frequent nice touches rise above the sluggishness of the whole. The camera eye technique clearly has possibilities in movies that are naturally suited to subjectivity, but in the old missing-woman and private cop hash, it is at best incongruous...
...Hope and Dorothy Lamour by this time have either established themselves as one of Hollywood's top comedy teams, either with or without the extra added attraction of a horse-fancier known as Harry Lillis Crosby. The last name doesn't appear on the roll of the "My Favorite Brunette" east, but the other two-thirds of the trio manage to hold up their end to good enough advantage. From the title you might well assume before the film even begins that it's going to be something on the same order as an opus called "My Favorite Blonde" that...
...that lady I saw you with last night" ilk. But Hope seems to have the uncanny ability of wringing a smile of some sort out of the Himsiest of material, by means of a sidelong leer, a sucer, or a facial contortion. And it's pleasant to see Hollywood give one of its standard plot formulas a genuine kidding for a change. They insist, however, upon ending it up with the customary finale for all Bob Hope pictures, and dragging out a well-known Paramount extra to give a little performance in pantomime...
...life steps a penniless ex-sailor given to hallucinations, who takes a job as chauffeur and promptly makes off to Cuba with his wife. Down in Havana some violent action takes place, killing off a considerable portion of the cast, including both hero and heroine. But later, true to Hollywood tradition, this all turns out to be a dream, and everything must be threshed out again from the beginning...