Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from his attempts to extricate himself from tight spots with cracks like, "I gotta go now--just remembered I left my horse outside double-parked." In addition, Paramount manages to overwhelm Hope with Joan Caulfield, Marjorie Reynolds, a Mme. Pompadour whose personality is on view only briefly, and a Hollywood-version Spanish Court filled with blondes...
...silly plot has Caulfield vacillating between Crosby and Astaire but eventually marrying Bing, Mr. Right Guy. After loving him, she leaves him when he irresponsibly sells one after another of his gold-plated night clubs. Both come to see the error of their ways and are reunited in a Hollywood ending...
...omitted. The latter show, although minus the Natalie Kalmus technicolor enjoyed by "Blue Skies," was essentially a much better picture--good plot, better performances by Crosby and Astaire, and a wonderful assortment of memorable melodies. While not another "Holiday Inn," "Blue Skies" is, nevertheless, a better than ordinary Hollywood product and a fitting vehicle for what may be Fred Astaire's last graceful movement across the boards...
...Best Years of Our Lives (Goldwyn-RKO Radio) gives Hollywood its cleanest fall, to date, in its wrestle with postwar problems. It is a big (2 hr. 45 min.), shiny, star-studded show that should appeal to practically anyone who can be lured inside a movie theater. Producer Goldwyn, cheerfully shooting the works on as glittery a collection of scripting, directing, acting and technical talents as $3 million could buy, has bought himself a sure-fire hit-with a little to spare. Like most good mass entertainments, this picture has occasional moments of knowing hokum; but unlike most sure-fire...
...France's outstanding actors: Jean-Louis Barrault (a graceful, desperate-faced pantomimist currently playing on the Paris stage in André Gide's translation of Hamlet), bouncy Pierre Brasseur and Arletty, a sort of healthy, worldly Mona Lisa who exudes a mature type of sex appeal that Hollywood has always ignored...