Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peggy Cummins, Hollywood's blonde Amber, gave her inflammable all to a bedroom scene, and smoke billowed up from the floor. Just a short circuit in the wiring...
Marie MacDonald, reasonably nicknamed "The Body," won a fight to cancel her contract with Hollywood Producer Hunt Stromberg, promptly said she was shucking the nickname, would "get by hereafter on my ability...
...five times at Potsdam, has played at two Truman dinners in Washington since his Army discharge in January. This presidential patronage has made List a big box-office draw. He now gets up to $2,500 for every concert performance, is earning $7,500 a week in his first Hollywood movie (Bachelor's Daughters...
Rare is the literary dog who leaves Hollywood without biting the hand that fed him. Biographer (and onetime scenarist) Emil Ludwig bit hard in La Bataille, a Paris weekly. His article, The Seven Pillars of Hollywood, recently reached the U.S. Excerpts...
...small American state [Hollywood] is on the eve of revolution. . . . The causes . . . are those of every similar uprising: the men in high places are incompetent, their standards lower with each passing year. They rule with the power of wealth alone and push people of talent and knowledge to the wall...