Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Charles Waldron, 71, character actor, veteran of 400-odd roles (among his sinister creations: Edward Moulton-Barrett in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Senator Ellsworth Langdon in now-playing Deep Are the Roots); in Hollywood...
...common as the old Keystone Kops. In the last year or so it has been Dr. George Sanders, Dr. Sydney Greenstreet, Dr. Ingrid Bergman, etc., while assorted neurotics and amnesiacs have roved the screen in a veritable lunatics' picnic. In an unsettled world, nothing apparently so fascinates Hollywood as the wonders of an unsettled mind, especially when it inhabits a beautiful body...
What it all means, in terms of U.S. culture and Hollywood's secret soul, should make a good study for a real psychiatrist...
...last fall, when "Getting Gertie's Garter" alliteratively closed the Majestic's career as a first-run house, the theatre has been running re-issues. (Re-issues are brand new prints, with new sound-tracks, of old pictures). The change-over wasn't premeditated: strikes and allotment limitations in Hollywood forced an expedition into the files which exhumed films as much as ten years old--"Sylvia Scarlet." "Naughty Marietta," "Pot O' Gold," "Snow White," and the like...
Sentimental Journey (20th Century-Fox), a soft-tremolo, full-quart weeper, should induce more snifflling and blubbering in the dark, more purse-fumbling and furtive eye-dabbing, than anything out of Hollywood since Marguerite Clark went to Heaven as Little...