Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Sidney Toler, 74, veteran stage & screen actor, onetime leading man to Julia Marlowe, best known in recent years for his bland cinemacting of Chinese Detective Charlie Chan; of intestinal cancer; in Hollywood...
Obviously the Philharmonic would use Walter's year shopping for a permanent conductor. Next year's guest conductors were the apparent favorites in the race: Minneapolis' Dimitri Mitropoulos, Cleveland's George Szell, Paris' Charles Munch and Hollywood Bowl's Leopold Stokowski. All but Stokowski (who once was) are clients of music's Mr. Big, Arthur Judson, the Philharmonic's manager. Judson thus had a firmer hold on the throne than before Rodzinski abdicated (TIME...
Even The Face herself was amazed. After beautiful and shrewd Anita Colby announced last week that she planned to quit as the $500-a-week maid-of-all-work to Moviemaker David Selznick, she got a score of job offers. They came from other producers in Hollywood, four advertising agencies, three cosmetics companies, two model agencies and assorted department stores, book publishers...
...Wonderful Life. Home from war, Hollywood Veterans James Stewart and Frank Capra bring off a flamboyant, sentimental fable (TIME, Dec.23...
...three decades ago, Hollywood, suffering economically from boycotts raised against certain of its products by religious, business, and other organized groups, reached down into its grab-bag and came up with Czar of all the movies Will Hays and his code of ethics. Purely a device for self-protection, the Hays Office eliminated "offensive matter" before a film was released, established the five-second sanitary kiss and Sunday school dialogue, and--eliminated harmful boycotts...