Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since the days of Cecil B. DeMille's glorious extravaganzas have movie audiences been able to sit in rapture of anything as truly Hollywood as "Caesar and Cleopatra." It fits all the adjectives a cinema press-agent can wholesale: colossal, stupendous, terrific. Scenes of giant Egyptian idols against a red, evening sky, the sand-swept Sphinx, the great columns of Cleopatra's palace, are all magnificent, but unhappily they obscure the important element-a scenario by Bernard Shaw...
...best paid and most featured new girls, Smart signed on a pair of Hollywood studio draftsmen named Joseph De Mers and Fritz Willis, who work mostly as a team, passing the drawing board back and forth. Says De Mers: "I paint a while and he paints a while." Every month for the next three years they have contracted to produce, individually or together, five versions of the girl (see cut). Their fee: $1,000 a throw...
...last month Harve had prowled around Hollywood (with mother) interviewing cinemoppets for the Times at $50 a week. Come fall, after classes (eleventh grade) at Chicago's South Shore High School, he will write a daily column for the Times, salary not yet discussed. On the air he will pick up $50 per as M.C. of a copycat Quiz Kid show, Quiz Down...
...There are several other deals cooking," said Harve last week, "but I'm not at liberty to reveal them." As for Hollywood: "I don't want to go to them, but if they come knocking, I'll open the door." Before week's end a representative of an independent Hollywood producer came knocking. Mother opened the door. When the representative left, Harve had a movie contract...
Divorced. Oscar Homolka, 45, stage star (I Remember Mama), film character actor (Rhodes, Ebb Tide); by third wife Florence Meyer Homolka, 35, daughter of Washington Post Owner and World Bank President Eugene Meyer; after seven years of marriage, two sons; in Hollywood...