Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marie McDonald, who claims exclusive rights to the nickname "The Body" (see cut), had contract trouble with Hollywood Producer Hunt Stromberg. She sued to cancel, but Stromberg brought to court a letter he thought proved that he and she were on fine terms. The letter opened "Dear Daddy S.," and informed him she had the measles. "They wanted to take pictures of my spots," she wrote, "but I drew the line. After all!" Signed: "The Spotted Body...
...Priestley, solid Briton of letters, and tiny Minister of Education Ellen C. Wilkinson were separately moved to loud tuts by a Hollywood importation...
...Battle of Agincourt. It is also the most inspired sequence in the film. Olivier opens it with a crepuscular shot of the doomed and exhausted English as they withdraw along a sunset stream to encamp for the night. This shot was made at dawn, at Denham (a miniature British Hollywood) against the shuddering objection of the Technicolor expert. It is one of many things that Olivier and Cameraman Robert Krasker did with color which Technicolor tradition says must not or cannot be done...
Then he went back to Hollywood to begin work on another speech on the same theme. The occasion: a Peabody Award (TIME, March 25), this month. Said he: "I will amplify my feelings about radio's part in the post-atomic world. My feeling is that most people are as nauseated as I am. It isn't enough to be amused when you have to endure those horrible jangle-jingles...
Died. Noah Beery, 63, veteran villain of stage & screen, elder brother of Cinemactor Wallace Beery; after a heart attack; in Hollywood...