Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neither the press agents of Hollywood or Radio Row have thrust a dotted line before the weary winner...
...move than it stalled. L.B. was ready & willing; Miss Kerr was more than ready & willing. But Pascal had so thoroughly snarled up his half of the contract that it seemed impossible to untangle. The chief difficulty was that Pascal had guaranteed Deborah a certain sum after British taxes. To Hollywood the price seemed prohibitive. Poor Deborah languished as helplessly as the rich man with the needle's-eye view of heaven. Then, suddenly, she became more like a bone at the vortex of a dogfight. MGM, Sam Goldwyn, Loew-Lewin, Hal Wallis and J. Arthur Rank were all trying...
...Star Is Born. Miss Kerr was bought but she still had to be sold-to her employers. The obstetrics of star-bearing often seem to have as little apparent relation to the finished star as forceps have to a baby. How Miss Kerr came into her first Hollywood role is a fair sample...
From that moment, she entered a strange, new, hermetic world, beguiling, hypnotic and gently self-destructive. Thenceforth she would be bombarded by the ultraviolet and infrared rays peculiar to Hollywood, and the anthropophagous attentions most peculiar of all to MGM. She might imagine M-G-M saying, like the doctor in James Thurber's cartoon: You're not my patient, Miss Kerr, you're my meat...
...entertaining of the lightweight screenings. A sly yarn about the gambler who combined good luck at the board with a full house in the boudoir, the film moves smoothly along paced by the tangy dialogue taken straight from the gaming tables. Some of the best scenes involve Jimmy Gleason, Hollywood's finest con-man, bluffing Frank Morgan, no sucker himself--while various types of bait get their just dues...