Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proud papa was Songsmith Frank Loesser, a Hollywood Tin Pan Alleyite whose specialty is producing catchy, shortlived jingles about leaky faucets (Bloop, Bleep) and slow boats to China. But Baby was not even written for public consumption. Loesser ran it off five years ago as a comedy number for himself and his wife, Lynn, to sing at parties. It was surefire when his songstress wife, with appropriate handwringing, began singing "I really can't stay . . . I've got to go 'way," and Loesser answered pleadingly, "But Baby, it's cold outside!" After that the pace picks...
Washington's National Press Club announced an important event last week: it had scheduled a private screening of Home of the Brave, Hollywood's first picture attacking anti-Negro prejudice (TIME, May 9). The Press Club urged members to "see this production [because it] has something important to say on one of the most important problems of our day." What the invitation did not need to say was that only whites will be welcome; the Press Club bars Negroes from its club rooms and from membership...
MacAlpin, Rex Nere of 4056 Stansbury Street, Sherman Oaks; Harvard School, North Hollywood. Maradudin, Aleixei Alexei of 135 West Palm Avenue, El Segundo; El Segundo High. Stokdyk, John Ellis of 702 Hilldale Street, Berkeley; Berkeley High. Twitchell, Robert Spencer of Woodrow Wilson High, Long Beach...
Alexander Knox gives a skillful and appealing performance. But most moviegoers, slouched down in the dark of their favorite dream emporium, are not likely to go for the lesson he tries to teach. Coming out of Hollywood, prime spinner of myths, it will seem a piece of light-hearted hypocrisy...
Johnny Allegro (Columbia). For years, Hollywood has been concocting improbable scripts for the minor talents of George Raft. This one, more bizarre than most, casts him as a florist who becomes the target for a bow & arrow killer...