Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reporting on a Hollywood party she attended, Diana Barrymore, 24, said that Lawrence (Dillinger) Tierney pasted her cousin, Sammy Colt, 36, so she, Diana, gave Tierney what-for, as he stood there with his shirt off, "like Tarzan." And furthermore, she said: "You dreary, dreadful actor, if you want to fight, hit me." Then she slapped his face eight times. The party, given by Artist John Decker, climaxed in six simultaneous fist fights, but nobody but Jack LaRue lost enough blood to be worth bothering about...
...editorialized the February number of the Unitarian Christian Register. And many a protesting Protestant agreed. Wincing under the quadruple impact of Going My Way, The Song of Bernadette, The Keys of the Kingdom and The Bells of St. Mary's he wondered why Hollywood should be so long on Catholic heroes, wondered also what might be done about...
...wonderers was in Hollywood itself. Last week a dark-&-handsome, soft-spoken young Navy lieutenant named Paul Frederic Heard rushed to finish some Navy teaching films so that he could take on a job of Protestant movie production and pressagentry. He would be secretary of the newly organized Protestant Film Commission, one of whose aims was to flavor Hollywood's movie output with as much Protestant salt as possible. Among Secretary Heard's immediate duties...
Portrait of Maria (MGM International) is a Mexican-made film with an English sound track dubbed in. It thus reverses the traditional practice of dubbing Spanish into Hollywood films so that Spanish-speaking movie audiences will get the impression that Gary Cooper, Shirley Temple, et al. are speaking idiomatic Spanish. U.S. cinemaddicts will not be surprised to hear Maria's heroine (Delores Del Rio) speaking English, but they will note that the sound track doesn't quite match the Del Rio lips-or even the Del Rio voice...
...outcast Indian girl who is tormented and finally stoned by her self-righteous neighbors, Delores Del Rio is beautiful. She has been deglamorized to the point of allowing a mole on the side of her nose to be photographed, but even in Hollywood her well-modeled face was never lovelier or more expressive. Visual beauty is the best thing about Portrait of Maria, which is the sort of picture that looks better in the lobby stills than it does on the screen. There are handsome shots of Lake Xochimilco and some well-photographed, well-directed crowd scenes. The picture...