Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what waned. Miss Lillie, of course, improved. She has supplemented almost all of her routines with additional business, such as the swinging pearls in the Pittsburgh choral song (to watch her twirl them is worth the price of admission alone), and the Teutonic accents in the satire on the Hollywood-Chopin romances...
...Hollywood heard about him and put him in the first of a half-dozen films (his latest: A Song Is Born...
Mistrusting Hollywood, he and the producers are considering doing an independent film version, directed by cinema-wise Elia Kazan (Gentleman's Agreement, Boomerang). Other Miller projects: two new plays, one a "pathetic comedy" about an Italian worker in Brooklyn's Red Hook section, and a novel set on the Brooklyn waterfront...
...Hollywood, which had neurotically exaggerated its economic doldrums (TIME, Dec. 27), was startled last week to find its new-found optimism dramatized at last. For the first time in eleven years, M-G-M summoned 81 of its far-flung sales executives to hear the good news straight from the front office: the company, which released 24 pictures last year, was going to turn out an imposing total of 67 in the next 12 to 15 months...
...neatly packaged film based on four unrelated Maugham short stories. Expertly scripted by R. C. Sherriff (Odd Man Out, This Above All, etc.) and urbanely introduced by Author Maugham himself, it also makes a handsomely mounted gift for moviegoers who don't insist on all the Hollywood formulas...