Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broadway and Hollywood have also gone to war-in U.S.O.-Camp Shows uniforms (Army o.d. or khaki). Last week some 250 entertainers invaded Europe, the largest group yet in a great push that began shortly after V-E day. The Army prescribed it as a cure for the G.I. doldrums...
Lastfogel made two trips overseas, found that even entertainment-hungry G.I.s complained when the shows were second-rate. Nobody would object, he found, to more big-name performers, especially if they looked like Marlene Dietrich. Determined to satisfy his audience, Abe went to work on Broadway and Hollywood. By V-E day, when the Army gave him a solid green light for transportation, he had his quota of stars and garters. Ready for action were smash-hit shows, top-bill specialty acts, operatic and concert stars, any and every other kind of talent...
...have: a big bank roll and a spigot for their potboilers in Paramount's 11,000 outlets. Result: By last week the Dollar Bills were 1) producing pictures at an average cost of $125,000; grossing an average $600,000 on each, 2) top class-B producers in Hollywood, 3) among the highest paid moviemakers in the business. This year they will collect about $700,000 (before taxes) for their work...
Profits, Not Art. In their early years in Hollywood, Thomas as a producer-writer and Pine as an associate producer (he was once Cecil B. de Mille's assistant) learned that poor planning skyrockets overhead and production costs. Often everybody on the set is idle while the director works out a new plot twist. So Pine & Thomas reduced their plots to two inartistic formulas...
Overhead is cut to the bone by renting stage space, keeping only a skeleton staff of eleven people between pictures, paying actors by the hour. But they are paid well and they do the scenes right the first time. Gagged Pine: "We pay the highest salaries in Hollywood-for 20 minutes." Result: Overhead, which amounts to 40% of a film's total cost at M.G.M., is kept at 4% by Pine & Thomas...