Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publish, six previous novels. She had put her husband to sleep reading them to him. But she had kept him wide awake with The Manatee. An acquaintance made a businesslike suggestion: hire a press agent to sell the Bruff product in a businesslike way. Her husband approved. She hired Hollywood's Russell Birdwell for $50,000 for two years. Chief theme of his publicity: Miss Bruff, a free and gifted soul, had escaped or been expelled from almost every school she had attended...
Born. To Veronica Lake (real name: Constance Keane de Toth), 25, cinemac tress who popularized the sheep-dog hairdo, and Andre de Toth, 32, Hungarian-born cinema director: their first child, a son (she has a daughter by a previous marriage) ; in Hollywood. Name Andre Michael de Toth II. Weight...
...flexing his jaw muscles and narrowing his eyes, Peck does his best to register the fact that all is not well with him. But despite the drag of the psychoanalytical theme, Director Hitchcock's deft timing and sharp, imaginative camera work raise Spellbound well above the routine of Hollywood thrillers. Again & again he injects excitement into an individual scene with his manipulation of such trivia as a crack of light under a door, a glass of milk, or the sudden wailing of a locomotive whistle...
...Skin; Ascent of F-6). In 1930 Isherwood went to Berlin, emerged later with his third novel, The Last of Mr. Norris, and a volume of stories, Goodbye to Berlin, that established him as one of Britain's most talented story tellers. In 1939 he landed in Hollywood, where he has divided his time between scriptwriting and translating Hindu religious teachings (BhagavadGita, The Song of God-TIME...
...Face of Central Europe. Prater Violet stems straight from Author Isherwood's knowledge of Hollywood, Continental Europe and Britain-in fact, he presents himself as one of Prater Violet's principal characters. Grim skeleton of his novel-as well as its basic irony-is the filming by British Imperial Bulldog Pictures of a tear-jerker operetta about old Vienna named "Prater Violet"-just on the eve of Dictator Dollfuss' putsch to power. For the script of Prater Violet, Bulldog's President Chatsworth hires Christopher Isherwood, who knows Berlin ("Berlin ['s] . . . pretty much the same kind...