Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cory Grant and Alfred Hitchcock bravely announced a Hollywood Hamlet in modern dress. "I won't attempt to portray the role," confided Cinemactor Grant, "in the traditional Shakespearean manner...
...first big job at 16, as the tenor of a trio which followed Bing Crosby and the Rhythm Boys into Hollywood's Cocoanut Grove in 1931. (Like Bing, he has never learned to read notes, but knows harmony from his trio days.) Tough times followed until he clicked with a one-song shot on Kate Smith's program. Since then, Tenor Smith has sometimes appeared in as many as 19 programs in one week. Among them were several variety shows for P & G, who reckoned that he would go over with housewives who tuned out the bobby...
Divorced. Mervyn LeRoy, 44, M.G.M.'s short, cigar-smoking producer-director (Little Caesar, Anthony Adverse, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo); by Doris Warner LeRoy, 33, eldest daughter of Harry M. Warner of Hollywood's three Warner Bros.; after seven years of marriage, two children; in Reno...
Died. Franz Werfel, 54, plump, pious Czech best-selling author of over 38 books (The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Embezzled Heaven, The Song of Bernadette and the yet-unpublished Star of the Unborn), playwright (Jacobowsky and the Colonel), refugee U.S. resident since 1940; of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. Werfel, whose Forty Days was burned by the Nazis, fled Vienna and Paris two jumps ahead of Hitler's hordes, took refuge in Lourdes, France, where he heard of the vision of the little French Catholic girl, Bernadette Soubirous, and vowed to sing "her song" if he ever escaped...
Pride of the Marines (Warner), adapted from Roger Butterfield's true story, Al Schmid, Marine, is Hollywood's most serious attempt yet to picture some of the problems of returning servicemen...