Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a motoring trip through Spain and a brief stopover in Hollywood, Rita and Aly flew down to Mexico City. For two days the couple remained barricaded in a suite in the Hotel Reforma. From Mexico the lovers flew to Cuba, attempting the arch pretense that they were barely acquainted. To reporters' questions, Swiss-educated Aly replied: "Look here, old boy, I'd like to answer your questions, but how can I when they are so embarrassing...
Home of the Brave. Hollywood's first crack at anti-Negro discrimination, delivered with the courage of its convictions (TIME...
...When Hollywood spins this yarn, it frequently abandons all pretense at reality. The stylized characters may lack conviction, but they have the gossamer look of dreamlike figures in a ballet. The British, trying in this movie to mix glamor with small, telling touches of reality, have missed out on both. The failure is particularly glaring because a number of highly skilled hands were involved in it. The plot was based on an H. G. Wells novel, The Passionate Friends. The screenplay was written by a topnotch storyteller, Eric Ambler (Journey into Fear, A Coffin for Dimitrios). The film...
...Woman's Story is an expensive warning to all non-Hollywood moviemakers: leave the filming of stylishly dressed romantic triangles to California's old masters...
...their house: "I didn't think it would last." In Toledo, a housewife tried to explain her motive for clouting her husband over he head: "I was frying eggs and all of a sudden I wondered what would happen if I hit my husband with the skillet . . ." In Hollywood, Beverly Mitchell got a divorce after she charged that her husband left her alone with the company and went off to his room to play with his electric trains...