Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Witness Cedric R. Worth turned out to be a big, balding, 49-year-old bureaucrat in pince-nez glasses, a onetime Hollywood scripter, wartime Navy commander, and now a $10,305-a-year special assistant to the Under Secretary of the Navy. Chairman Vinson plunged right...
...Hollywood idea man had visited Manhattan's federal courthouse last week, he could have walked away with all the makings of a grade B movie script, complete with a theatrical producer, a dark-haired charmer trying to entice information out of him, and a sizable batch (89 pages) of ready-made dialogue. The script didn't quite turn out according to plan...
Adolphe Menjou, known for decades as cinema's fanciest-plumed male, got ready for a cross-country lecture tour that will give the citizenry the low-down on Hollywood. Said he: "Despite the fact that Hollywood is covered by more than 400 reporters, no one really knows what the town is like...
Divorced. Otto L. (for Ludwig) Preminger, 42, Vienna-born Broadway actor-director (Margin for Error, 1939) and Hollywood producer (Laura); by Marion Mill Preminger, 39, onetime Hungarian actress; after 18 years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Jolson Sings Again begins prosaically enough where the first movie left off, but it soon becomes a fascinating look at Hollywood backstage. Producer Sidney Buchman gives a close explanation of how he pulled off his neatest trick-the synchronizing of Jolson's singing voice with Actor Larry Parks's gestures and lips. He has also decked out the whole exhibition with a brilliant display of soundstage techniques and gadgets. The result is a dizzy scramble of fact and fiction. In the sequences showing the filming of The Jolson Story, Larry Parks plays both himself and the "real life...