Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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BLANCA HOLMES Hollywood, Calif...
...pumping air down by a rotary pump. A little more than an hour after Kathy's fall, a power-drill crew began to sink a shaft alongside the abandoned well. On the other side, big clamshell shovels clawed an open pit for exploration. Fifty floodlights were rushed from Hollywood studios. Volunteer workers-engineers, sandhogs, retired miners, cesspool diggers-rushed to help...
...Denver airport, a nosy reporter cornered lanky Cinemactor James Stewart, about to board a plane for Hollywood with Traveling Companion Mrs. Gloria Hatrick McLean. Prodded about marriage rumors, Stewart said: "Well, I'm not going to get married." "To Mrs. McLean?" "No, I'm just not going to get married...
...Command Decision" was a good book and a better play; Hollywood has thrown in just enough stars and situations to kill most of its effectiveness. The movie follows its predecessors pretty closely, detailing an Air Force General's fight against top brass and public pressure to complete a tough bombing operation. He is then kicked upstairs out of his job with the mission incomplete; his successor must make the command decision of whether or not to continue the costly operation...
...Broadway, Paul Kelly played the General with amazing conviction. Clark Gable, who runs things in the movie, simply wrinkles his forehead and looks sincere. The rest of the cast, and there is a lot of it, wears immaculate uniforms and strides stiffly through Hollywood-brand operations rooms. Only Van Johnson, amazingly enough, who has a set-up part as the General's cynical aide, can touch the acting of the stage version. The play's wonderful single set has been augmented with shots of model B-17s plowing into picturesque English landscape; when the command decision is finally made...