Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...associates" of the leftish Nation gathered in expectation of hearing a stirring rallying cry to the Wallace banner by Will Rogers Jr., their Senate hopeful. What they heard was an anemic speech in which Democrat Rogers sidestepped any mention of Wallace, Jimmy Byrnes or Harry Truman. Many a hot Hollywood liberal went away angered...
...Their Lives (Universal) also features a big, old tree which is inhabited by spirits. This time the spirits are the unhappy ghosts of departed mortals. The movie would be of interest to no one but fans of Comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, except that it underscores a mild Hollywood trend toward fantasy. (In pictures soon to be released, such diverse types as Keenan Wynn and Paul Muni also play ghosts...
...Hollywood has often used illegitimacy as a theme-generally for deep, racking sobs (The Sin of Madelon Claudet, To Each His Own), less frequently for somewhat embarrassed guffaws (The. Miracle of Morgan's Creek). Surprisingly, the French have contrived, in this tender, low-keyed picture, to use illegitimacy for a few pleasant, amoral chuckles...
...dead lusband. Though The Dark Wood has its cold-blooded villain and villainess, most of the characters are treated as normal, unheroic people of the 20th Century -with the difference that their faces seem always to turn, like flowers to the sun, toward the klieg lights of Hollywood...
...story was compounded by a methematician, not written by a writer. This Hollywood Einstein has taken a man, his wife, and their two daughters, equated them with a young obstetrician, a Frenchman, and a worldly aunt, and triumphantly made it all come out even. The Frenchman and the obstetrician account for the two daughters, while the husband and wife remain idyllicly united, despite some complications with the worldly aunt, who cops the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the only character in the picture who doesn't remind the audience at least one that "this is 1876!" "Centennial Summer's" ingenuity...