Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ginger Rogers and five other clotheshorses were touted by Fashion Designer Ray Driscoll as his favorites for the backhanded title: Hollywood's Worst-Dressed Women. Proclaimed Driscoll: Ginger "doesn't dress." Betty Hutton "wears too much of everything." Joan Leslie "tries to dress like a teen-ager." Judy Garland "dresses like a tired clubwoman." Betty Grable wears clothes "too tight and too short...
...four war books sold 300,000 copies; his war-inspired blank verse, popular but undistinguished, appeared in Collier's and Good Housekeeping. In the past three years his writing brought in $250,000, which went to charities. He became the first archbishop to sell a book to Hollywood, when M-G-M decided to film his wartime parable, The Risen Soldier...
...brightest young postwar net stars the U.S. has developed, Mouledous is a good bet to shine in future Davis Cup competition, unless Hollywood gets there first. Last week, a talent scout who saw Dick's picture in a New Orleans paper signed him up for 20th Century-Fox. Said the scout: "He's got a face that will appeal to women...
Born. To Maria Montez, 28, the Dominican Republic's gift to Hollywood, and Jean Pierre Aumont, 33, boyish-looking French cinemactor (The Cross of Lorraine), in 1940 a tankman at Sedan: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Maria Christine. Weight...
...when clothed." So when Schooner Captain Shamus got his first eyeful of gorgeous Cleo, it was as if "an exotic and beautiful wild creature [was] trampling the quiet loveliness of a well-tended flower garden." Shamus was even more trampled when he discovered that Cleo was one of the Hollywood party which he had agreed to ship to New Guinea in search of background material for a new film...