Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After this year's Academy Awards had been proclaimed, the major studios in Hollywood announced their withdrawal of support from the annual meeting of Hollywood's Mutual Admiration Society. Since the machinery that goes into the awarding of "Oscars" is complicated and expensive (all nominated films must be privately shown for the Academy's 5,000 members who then vote by mail) this could mean the death of the Great Gelded Gewgaw. And a good thing that would...
...know what were the original motives of the founders of the Academy Awards back in 1928, but even the most casual observer of Hollywood can see that it is today nothing more than a crass publicity device which even a solemn-toned, pipe-smoking, God-fearing President like lovable, old Jean Hersholt can not conceal. (And I want it understood that I am not saying one unkind word against the man who brought the darling Dionne Quintuplets into this world. I've got cockles like the next guy.) Nevertheless, President Hersholt has stated that the Academy subsidy has been withdrawn...
...moviegoers who remember them in Flying Down to Rio (1933), the impersonation doesn't quite come off. For one thing, time-even in Hollywood-has not stood still. Ginger and Fred are no longer quite up to the soaring, smoothly paced routines of the '305. Also missing (with one exception: They Can't Take That Away from Me) are the romantic Gershwin tunes which used to lift and carry their pictures along. Nevertheless, what is left makes much better entertainment than most cinemusicals. Except for a few slow spots, e.g., a flat-footed Scottish number in kilts...
...Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Paramount), featuring Bing Crosby, is proof that Mark Twain, who wrote the original story, knew a thing or two that Hollywood has forgotten. Twain figured, correctly, that it would be fun to turn loose in the 6th Century a character with some of the scientific knickknacks and know-how of the igth Century. Twain also knew that to get the fun his audience must be willing to believe in the fantasy-' to accept it as a child accepts a fairy story. Unfortunately, the makers of this movie appear to believe...
...Bride of Vengeance (Paramount) is a murky 15th Century brother& -sister act involving Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia (Macdonald Carey and Paulette Goddard) and Lucrezia's latest husband (John Lund). As history, it is elaborate Hollywood spoofing. As melodrama, it is constantly toppling into broad burlesque...