Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bank should satisfy the critical eye of its padrone. It has 3,300,000 depositors, one for every three people in California. Every day 3,000 men & women walk into its multiple lobbies, walk out with loans. Bank of America is still Hollywood's great financial house; last week it had passed over a staggering sum to the new producing company which will film Erich...
Hedda Hopper's hat contest was a crowning success. For five weeks, on Tom Breneman's Breakfast in Hollywood (ABC, Mon.-Fri.,11 a.m., E.S.T.), heady Hedda asked for amateur hat designs, soon had 65,000 entries on hand. This week, with the same girlish glee with which she writes her Hollywood gossip column, Hedda announced the 103 win ners...
Born. To William Wyler, 42, short, swart director who graduated from bang-bang Westerns to a closer walk with art. (Wuthering Heights, Mrs. Miniver), and Margaret Tallichet Wyler, 30, almost Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind: their third child, first son; in Hollywood. Name: William Jr. Weight...
...British films were eligible for the Academy Award, Laurence Olivier's production of "Henry V" would win every Oscar in sight. For that reason it is difficult to talk about it. The publicity troglodytes of Hollywood have long since exhausted the mine of superlatives in describing far inferior efforts. No press agent adjectives can do this picture justice...
...production overflowing with exciting experiments, the most daring is its abandonment of realism as the medium of expression. Painted backdrops, liberal use of miniatures, and Disneyesque castles mark an important and significant departure from Hollywood's fantastic absorption with accuracy and detail. Applying to his sets the Aristotelian dictum that the function of the artist is to present the essence, rather than the particularity, of life-- which Shakespeare so wonderfully exemplifies in his use of dramatic poetry as a vehicle of expression-- Olivier reaches a level of perception into life that has seldom been equalled in motion pictures...