Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might not also bet wrong on a shortage in dollars. Would Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton suddenly appear in Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell's calamitous role? Or would the Government, now alert to dangers, try to save dollars by restrictions on such comparative luxuries as U.S. cigarets, Hollywood films, Texas grapefruit and dried eggs...
...ruin to big business, Metro-Goldwyn's Mayer became one of the top spenders. He sank more than $5,000,000 in horseflesh and horse farms. A man who likes to run things himself, he found that he was working harder at his hobby than at running Hollywood's richest movie studio. Last week, after convincing himself it just wasn't fun any more, L.B. sold...
Born. To Hedy Lamarr, 32, Viennese-born film beauty, and Cinemactor John Loder, 49: their second child, first son; in Hollywood. Name: Anthony John. Weight...
...picture's naturalism is stylized, of course, and is by no means the first of its kind in films. But in Boomerang! the trick is fully and perfectly turned. Also, an important corner is turned, away from Hollywood's rather monotonous dreamland, into the illimitable possibilities of the world the eye actually sees. Around that corner, many other films may follow, to everybody's profit...
There is also the magnificent Anna Magnani (pronounced mon-yon-ee), who is soon, for better or worse, to come to Hollywood. Signora Magnani's style of beauty is not quite standard Hollywood; when she appeared in Open City, the reviewer for Variety described her as plain. Her acting style, too, is Mediterranean in its richness. But in her own vivid way-and in her knowledge of how to project her personality on the screen (this is only her second movie)-she is one of the most impressive women since Garbo. Lacking Garbo's peculiar, dreamlike power...