Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good friends among Hollywood's starmakers and he knew his way around Chicago's underworld and how to get in to see Al Capone.* Finally, he got on the good side of the chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee who could get him two major generals (Alden H. Waitt and William N. Porter) to gambol at his daughter's wedding party, could get Army-Navy "E" awards for his munitions plants, and could give and carry orders that Garsson's 27-year-old son, Joseph H. ("Bud") Garsson, was to be taken care...
...himself into the good graces of Hollywood's Joseph M. Schenck, who once lent him $130,000 worth of stock and, surprisingly enough, got it back...
...Hollywood was unkind to Hilda because she would not play in anti-Nazi films ("after all, my family was still there"). A rejected suitor denounced her to the FBI. Hilda went to Mexico, became a Mexican citizen...
Pink String and Sealing Wax stars Googie Withers, who was none too careful about that cleavage (see cut). The Hollywood Codists-who convinced themselves that Hollywood's Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice were morally clean-have raised eyebrows over the British picture's theme: premeditated murder...
...London last week, Interpreter Joe Breen's good humor was holding up. "The difference between me and most people in Hollywood," he said, "is that I know I am a pain in the neck." But the British press-ignoring the fact that British movie men had invited him over-attacked him as a bluenose. The New Statesman and Nation complained...