Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From its sizable British market, Hollywood got another rebuff last week. Said Sir Stafford Cripps, president of the export-conscious Board of Trade: "I am certain there are millions of [British] filmgoers who are anxious to see the best films from other countries. But there are limits to our appetite, both quantity and quality, and we also feel that exchange implies reciprocity." Unless Hollywood exports improve, he warned, Britain may well restrict them by imposing quotas and tariffs...
...Hollywood could console itself after all those critical sneers during 1946 (TIME, Jan. 20). U.S. movies never enjoyed such a smashingly profitable year at the box office...
...pictures made $4 million or more, apiece. Until 1946, only 25 pictures in Hollywood history had done that well...
...kick-in-the-teeth plot is the novel technique Director Montgomery uses to tell it. Attempting to put the audience in the detective's shoes, he pretends that the camera is the detective's eyes. Many movies have used this technique in individual scenes, but no Hollywood film has ever before stuck to it consistently through fist fights, automobile chases and lovemaking. In a short introduction to the movie, Montgomery appears at a desk and looks into the camera while explaining that he is Detective Marlowe. Thereafter, he moves (taking the audience with him) behind the camera...
...Wonderful Life. A sentimental fable with the force of a juggernaut, in which Producer-Director Frank Capra and Actor James Stewart stage a triumphant Hollywood homecoming (TIME...