Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your April 18 issue carried a story dealing with scented movies. Reportedly, one Hans Laube left this country because there were no takers. A humble observation is that 90% of Hollywood's output definitely smells...
Brock Pemberton, veteran producer of Broadway plays-Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1938), Harvey (1944)-stepped before the klieg lights for a Hollywood screen test. "I don't expect anything will come of it," he grumbled afterwards. "I just did it for the experience ... I imagine that my investment of some $5 for renting [a costume] will be wasted...
There is some new competition for Hollywood these days, and it does not come from Europe. A New York group called Film Producers Inc. has made a documentary which for straightforward drama and acting ability equals anything the big companies have done in a long, long, time. And this picture, "The Quiet One," has been hailed by the New York Newspaper Guild as "The Best Picture of the Year...
Sheer Ecstasy. In Hollywood, William C. Shaw Jr. explained to police who arrested him why he was wearing a nylon stocking over his face: "It makes me feel so good when I take...
...played the boy and the girl in "Torment" when it was filmed in 1946 have since been called forth to bigger things. Mai Zetterling, the girl, has been seen lately in several J. Arthur Rank productions, and the boy, Alf Kjellin, has spent the last couple of years in Hollywood in the employment of David O. Stelznick--making no pictures, but having his named changed every so often. That is a pity, because he is an actor of something more than promise. Miss Zetterling doesn't really have a great deal to do in the film, but makes her part...