Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their technical excellence, lavishness, and slavish emphasis on accuracy, Hollywood's motion pictures can seldom be hailed as either sensitive or powerful. "The Lost Weekend," however, is both of these...
There are weaknesses: the film is episodic and some of the sense of mounting horror at this rake's progress is lost because of this. The ending, Wilder and Brackett's genuflection to Hollywood's age-old formulate of the Happy Ending, is contrived and unbelievable. But Milland'e portrayal of the harrowing frightfulness of hangover, the prissy and cynical male nurse in the alcoholic ward, and numerous minor touches will all hit you where you live...
...means Hollywood's handsomest leading man, but probably the one most admired by cinemaddicts of both sexes, Gable was born in Cadiz, Ohio, in 1901, and got his first stage experience as prop boy in an Akron stock company. He had ups & downs on Broadway and in stock. Then, after several years of trying to crash the screen, he was given his first sizable Hollywood role in 1931 (The Easiest Way, with Constance Bennett). By 1932 he was ranked among the top ten U.S. money-making stars. During the next decade he played opposite such glittering screen favorites...
...keep up the pace, if not always the wit; a full Gable catalogue would include several dozen pictures ranging in altitude from the high-flown, windy Gone, which was hardly his fault, to the lowdown, torrid Somewhere I'll Find You, brought out shortly after he left Hollywood in 1942 to join the Army...