Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, Calif...
...three Negroes, eleven women. The foreman: Mrs. Thelma Dial, a Negro dressmaker. Three of the jurors were unemployed. The only ostensibly well-to-do juror in the lot was Broadway producer and author Russell Janney, 63, who wrote the bestselling Miracle of the Bells, and got $125,000 from Hollywood...
...edition of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, declared it "a monstrous crime against world culture." To catch the newsstand trade, the American edition wore on the cover a colored photograph of Cinemactress Vivien Leigh (Anna)* and moony, mustached Cinemactor Kieron Moore (Vronsky), separated by a nose tip from a Hollywood embrace. To Communist eyes this appeared "as bright and shiny as a toilet soap advertisement." In cutting the bulky novel by approximately two-thirds, gritted the Literary Gazette, the "American barbarians" had reduced Tolstoy's classic to a "him-and-her" boulevard romance, made Vronsky "an indisputable frequenter...
...Hollywood's best films of last year have been put together to form one delightful double bill in midtown Boston. These are "Johnny Belinda" and "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," both out of Warner Brothers...
...lapses into stilted novelistic clichés, and its too convenient ending which veils coincidence with the appearance of fatality. But for the most part, Mist on the Waters is as good as a first-rate movie thriller. With somebody like Barry Fitzgerald playing the part of Barty Fingal, Hollywood could have a story to work with...