Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sinclair Lewis, whose last try at movie writing was an anti-fascist horse opera (junked as "bad box office"), was back for another try-this time a satire on Adam & Eve. Two days after he hit Hollywood, Babbitt's aging creator: 1) went to a big party at Gossipist Hedda Hopper's, 2) talked like a native. "The movies are no more commercial," declared Lewis, "than any other form of art. . . . There's no reason to suppose that a poor man starving in a garret writes better than a rich man living in a mansion. . . . Human beings...
...dress well the men had only to listen to Hollywood's Adolphe Menjou, fashion plate since the days of the silent cinema. He offered instructions. Among them: let the jacket sleeves be narrow, and the shirt cuff showing; never wear a striped shirt with a striped suit; wear suspenders instead of a belt; let the knot of the tie be loose instead of tight; let the trousers break just over the instep; stay away from jewelry. "The well-dressed man," certified the famously high-styled actor, "is never conspicuous...
Died. Eva Tanguay, 68, onetime bespangled, tousle-haired queen of vaudeville, whose raucous rendition of I Don't Care was top favorite with a whole generation of U.S. showgoers; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood. Nearly blind, crippled with arthritis, the remains of her fortune ($2,000,000) lost in the crash of 1929, she lived out her last years alone, hoped always for a comeback: "Say that I will be back ... if you will-back by Christmas...
...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...
...movie direction of the past year. In the 1946 film field, foreign entries such as "Henry V," "Brief Encounter," "Open City," and "The Well-Digger's Daughter" far outdistanced the general run of American film productions in artistic excellence. Most U. S. films seem to suffer from a Hollywood occupational disease that can best be described as a sugary phoniness, a candied insincerity. "The Best Years of Our Lives," it is pleasing to report, is a notable exception to the rule and a very fine picture...