Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. Colonel Ben Lyon, Hollywood hero of the '20s, now 44, back from eight years of show business in Britain with wife Bebe Daniels, made a sentimental journey to his Atlanta birthplace. Said he, after looking the old house over: "It's pretty dilapidated...
Ernest Hemingway visited Hollywood Beautician Gloria Bristol (specializing in male customers) for a scalp-&-skin treatment, and learned a new beauty trick-the use of a toothbrush. "He told me," she said, "he always had brushed his teeth with a Turkish towel...
...smash Rebecca, but she turned it down. She was under contract to Warner for half of each year; if she worked for Selznick, he would own the other half. She preferred to spend it with her husband, in Ireland. That sort of independence is neither admired nor understood in Hollywood. It didn't exactly enhance her stock, either, when she returned from Ireland pregnant...
...began getting second-grade, left over and plain trash roles. She was done out of a long-promised chance to play Emily Brontë. She went to Broadway and enjoyed herself thoroughly in a play by Irwin Shaw (Sons and Soldiers). The fact that it flopped sent her Hollywood stock still lower...
First, the editor's wife (Irene Dunne), a Hollywood playwright, sets up light housekeeping in an extremely lightly assembled cottage near his Miami officer-candidate school; she sees him only spasmodically, when he sprints in, gasping for a change of socks and psychoses. Then the editor's boss (Charles Coburn), a pitiless character interested in nothing except steaming copy, adds his own kind of harassment, first by long- distance, later in person. Adding to the reeign of horror are the editor's commanding officer (Charles Evans) and his terrifying wife and mother-in-law. Dropping...