Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rank & file U.S. movie exhibitors may not care much about cinematic art for its own sake, but they know what they want from Hollywood. Last week the exhibitors drew some conclusions from their box-office receipts. After polling its exhibitor-members across the nation, the Allied States Association announced: Hollywood's pictures (and advertising) have been truckling to the tastes of "sophisticated Broadway audiences" and "professional reviewers," and run a serious risk of becoming "class entertainment...
...Hollywood has been lax in failing to clean up the private lives of sinful stars. Instead, some producers have deplorably chosen to make capital of their "outrageous exploits...
After two lean years in a Hollywood jungle that has never been more perilous. Eagle Lion-the first addition to big-time U.S. film studios in 14 years-was at last making good. Under able President Arthur B. Krim, a 38-year-old lawyer who tackled his job with virtually no movie experience, E.L. has become a model of efficient, cost-cutting operation. It has kept down overhead by steering clear of long-term contracts with high-priced stars and directors. Periodically, it has shut down until it could prepare four to six films for almost simultaneous (and thus economical...
...melodrama is leavened now & again by a stretch of slapstick which is equally unreal. The only real moments, in fact, are provided by Gloria Grahame, who proves once again, as she did by her performance as the sullen taxi dancer in Crossfire, that she can be one of Hollywood's most convincing chippies...
...True Love (Paramount) is a sincere but woebegone Hollywood attempt to produce a British specialty: the quiet little drama in which well-bred characters stiff-upperlip their way through an emotional crisis...