Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Academy Awards (Thurs. 11 p.m., ABC). Hollywood distributing its annual Oscars...
Lady Mendl, 91, tireless international smart-setter, tried her own therapy when her doctor ordered her to bed for ten days. In a pink satin bed jacket and diamonds, she presided over several little dinner parties in her candlelit Hollywood bedroom. To small tables, her guests (Hedda Hopper, Clifton Webb, Fanny Brice, et al.) brought picnic baskets. Blooming under the treatment, Lady Mendl was ready this week to hop a boat for Europe...
...nearly 20 years since he had graduated from Curtis-where, White says, "everyone was a genius"-he had learned that he was not one. Bowing his viola in the St. Louis Symphony for six years, then in Hollywood's radio and recording studios, he had become convinced that the top U.S. conservatories were "only helping students to fool themselves...
Even blase Hollywood was impressed by the invitations from Houston. They were in gold, on white doeskin. For this week's opening of his $21 million Shamrock hotel, hustling Oilman Glenn McCarthy had requested the company of a trainload of movie and radio stars. He had the forethought to rent a Santa Fe Super Chief to carry his guests free to Texas and back. As a St. Patrick's Day touch, McCarthy had ordered 2,500 shamrocks flown over from Eire...
...Hollywood used to shy away from heavy "messages" and social consciousness, but last week the moviemakers were feverishly racing one another to make problem pictures. Emboldened by last season's success at denouncing anti-Semitism (Crossfire, Gentleman's Agreement) and examining mental illness (The Snake Pit), Hollywood was tackling a new and difficult subject: the Negro problem. Apparently no one was much worried about how it would do at the box office; the only question was which company would get its picture out first...