Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Alan Ladd Jr., 33, green-eyed cinema tough guy, and Sue Carol Ladd, 38, actor's agent, onetime star: their second child, first son; in Hollywood. Name: undecided. Weight...
Canteen, Home in Indiana] was interrupted by the war, shows up as one of Hollywood's most unaffected and likable juveniles. Three young unknowns, intelligently entrusted with important roles, prove themselves more than worthy. The new faces, which are likely to be familiar ones soon...
...Allene Roberts, 17, was found working at Hollywood's "Stage 8" television theater. Her chief assets: a lovely, sensitive face; an already subtle skill at timing; a gentle but conspicuous talent. ¶ Julie London, "discovered" by Agent Sue Carol running a Hollywood store elevator (which studio publicists claim had also been previously operated by Susan Peters and Jane Russell). Her chief asset : she vigorously communicates just about all the oomph a teen-ager decently could...
...Life of Mozart," despite its Continental origin, is disfigured with every one of the flaws which have so consistently distinguished Hollywood's musical biographies. The philosophy which broke Cole Porter's leg to provide a crisis for "Night and Day" has unfortunately seeped into the portrayal of a real composer: it is made all the more annoying by the realization that such an expedient is equivalent to tinning the lily which is Mozart's life...
Preoccupation with this overblown love triangle leaves the life chopped up into little disjoined parcels. But even this shattered plot would be endurable if the movie had been provided with an intelligent musical score--one item which even Hollywood seems to have mastered in such as the Gershwin and Kern biographies. Except for a few snatches of the G minor symphony--played by Joseph Haydn on the piano!--almost nothing of Mozart's was discernible...