Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Orson Welles & Rita Hayworth, after six months of separation, celebrated their conjugal reconjunction in one of those Hollywood domestic pictures: of Husband Orson inspecting Wife Rita's hair in mid-passage from red to blonde...
Emir Mohamed Al-Raschid II, Detroit-born, self-styled heir to the Turkish throne and direct descendant of the Prophet, took a right royal beating in a Hollywood divorce court. His commoner wife, a onetime Iowa telephone operator (Marcella Whiting), now the Princess Pareshah, won both her divorce, ("He never earned a cent . . . made me serve him breakfast in bed") and the right to raise their 17-month-old daughter as a Methodist. Mohamed II was horrified, claimed that some 200,000,000 Moslems would be, too. "The Princess," he declared, "belongs to all Islam." His wife's attorneys...
Last week in Hollywood, the man who called himself Jim Hoyl revealed his identity. He had written the song to prove how easy it was. The composer: Violinist Jascha Heifetz...
While many a corporation was losing its shirt, Hollywood's studios were able to fit themselves out in the finest mink-lined sport shirts. Last year had been a record year. This month Paramount's President Barney Balaban declared that 1946 would be even better. This meant that profits would be in the supercolossal class of around $130,000,000-double last year's. And dividends might run as high as $42,000,000, almost double last year...
...Hollywood, which can explain everything, had an explanation for this, aside from the general prosperity. Twentieth Century-Fox's shrewd Darryl F. Zanuck credited 1) crowded living (from which movies provide temporary relief), 2) the newly educated audience of veterans (who got the movie habit overseas), 3) the reopening of foreign markets (which normally account for close to 35% of the industry's gross...