Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, Calif...
Everybody's in the Act. The roster of ICCASP's Manhattan and Hollywood chapters might have sprung directly from a mad director's loveliest dream. Frank Sinatra is one of its hardest-working speakers. It can call on Gypsy Rose Lee to bare her navel and William Rose Benét to write a script. Lena Horne will sing at any rally and Walter Huston will recite the Gettysburg Address. Fredric March belongs, and so do Eddie Cantor, Charles Boyer, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Charles Laughton and Robert Young...
...start producing a picture based on his own novel, The Hand that Drove the Nails (Hession's considered opinion: "It knocks The Robe into a cocked hat"); 3) set up a "liaison office" between church and cinema to "advise" on and promote Protestant films; 4) campaign for Hollywood's struggling little Cathedral Films, which is now making Bible shorts for church & school...
Says Hession of religious cinema today : "The world is in the worst mess in its history, and the cinema is the instrument with which to improve it." But to do it, Hollywood must produce 1) more Protestant films; 2) better Catholic films. Pictures like The Bells of St. Mary's, says he are so bad that "even Catholics object.' These films show only the superficial aspects of religion. The average man should be forgiven if he considers them propaganda. To treat a clerical collar as the epitome of religion is a mistake. There are people in the world...
...according to Hession, apparently none of them lives in Hollywood. Said he: "I've found out one thing while I've been here-that anyone with guts is desperately interested in religion. The urgency of our day . . . is beginning to crystallize most mens desire to find a way of life in spiritual things." Among those who "feel the urgency": Mary Pickford ("frightfully concerned with religion"), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ("desperately seeking a working philosophy...