Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place undue strain on their limited budgets have found an answer to their problem in the Esplanade Concerts given in the Hatch Memorial Shell, Boston. The summer series opened last Tuesday evening before a crowd of 20,000 which transformed the usually serene Storrow Embankment into something resembling the Hollywood Bowl. Back Bay rubbed elbows with Scollay Square under the hypnotic influence of symphonic music...
...looks like a Roman Catholic priest after Hollywood's heart-from the man-to-man no-nonsense of his manner to the gentle, Celtic cadence of his speech. But South-Ireland-born Chaplain A. Hamilton Nesbitt of New York City's Police Department is a solid Methodist. Like many another Protestant churchman, Chaplain Nesbitt had long looked with Christian envy upon the way the Catholics get their people together. Why shouldn't Protestants use the same methods...
...Searching Wind (Hal Wallis-Paramount) is an angry film sermon against appeasement. Skillfully adapted from her own angry Broadway play by Lillian Hellman, the picture is an intelligent and frequently moving job. By Hollywood standards, it is highly courageous : it not only grapples with knotty political issues but it dares to address itself to grownups who can read without working their lips...
Stormy Waters (MGM International), a French-made film with English titles, stars Jean Gabin and Michele Morgan, two talented French players who have long since attracted the admiring attention of Hollywood. Completed in 1940 just before the fall of France, the negative of this picture was spirited away to Bordeaux and kept hidden during the occupation...
...cinemaddicts who have sat through scores & scores of Hollywood yarns about the man, the wife and the Other Woman may be merely baffled. The actors in Stormy Waters, who behave in a very French but also very human fashion, act as though they had never heard of the standard movie triangle and had no idea that it must be played in a standard...