Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...managed to duck matrimony through a full decade as Hollywood's "Most Eligible Bachelor," finally announced his engagement to Divorcee Gloria Hatrick McLean, 31, mother of two and onetime daughter-in-law of the late Evalyn Walsh ("Hope Diamond") McLean...
...Garden State Park, across the Delaware River from Philadelphia,' Palestinian and Olympia are expected to head the field of three-year-olds in the $50,000-added-Jersey Stakes. For Californians, Hollywood Park will feature the $25,000-added Will Rogers Handicap, in which Star Fiddle and Pedigree are entered. Boston, Wilmington, Detroit, Chicago, and scores of lesser U.S. tracks will also put their best equine feet forward this weekend?as will Toronto's Woodbine Park, where the best of the Canadian racing crop will run for the Sg-year-old, $10,000-and-50-guineas King's Plate (probable...
...When Hollywood's Producer-Director Anatole Litvak and Producer Darryl Zanuck gambled on filming The Snake Pit (TIME, Dec. 20), they knew that it might never be shown in Britain-a risk that could make the difference between profit and loss. They took the long shot that the movie would get by the British censorship ban on scenes within insane asylums. Last week, the gamble began...
British exhibitors shrewdly let the critics see both versions. Last week the censored version opened at London's Odeon and broke all attendance records. From the critics it drew more compliments than quibbles. Sample from the Daily Express: ". . . The finest thing Hollywood has ever done . . . When the end came . . . I was crying." But The Snake Pit's finest tribute came in a censor-dictated line in the British foreword: "Remember-all the characters you see on the screen are played by actors and actresses...
...Woman's Story (Rank; Universal-International) has been told often and better by Hollywood. In this ill-advised British-made version, the glamorous, irresolute heroine (Ann Todd) decides to marry wealth and security (Claude Rains), but she cannot bring herself to let go of romance (Trevor Howard...