Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question of areas of competition. The U.T. regards all foreign language films as excellent material for the HLU but seems to resent all fairly recent English language movies. This attitude of the Theater ignores a basic distinction that exists today in all movies. Two categories have become evident-the Hollywood type and the literary type. The former is generally considered more lucrative, and the U.T. has found its widest regular audience with this kind of movie. Even the U.T.'s revival days have lately been filled with popular Hollywood articles of the past instead of showing old cinema masterpieces...
...Snake Pit. Hollywood's hard, honest look at mental illness, with a chillingly good performance by Olivia de Havilland (TIME...
...cinemoguls have recently pooh-poohed talk of Hollywood's depression (TIME, Dec. 27), and are pointing out instead how well dividends and box-office returns have been holding up. British film bigwigs like J. Arthur Rank and Sir Alexander Korda are also trying to make light of their economic ills, but it has become uncomfortably plain that a major crisis is gripping the industry that turned out such thriving exports as Hamlet and The Red Shoes...
There were a few encouraging signs. A small independent producer had just turned out a promising feature for $500,000. Called Obsession, it had been brought in under its budget by Director Edward Dmytryk, one of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten." The bigger producers, including Rank, had been making economies too, but insiders still thought that production costs were much too high. The titans were studying the lesson already learned (if not always practiced) by Hollywood: the only way out of the slump was to make better pictures for less money...
Ever since the first hero lumbered off into the sunset carrying the swag in one hand and the heroine in the other, people have been carping about the unreality of the normal Hollywood product. What they wanted to see was something approaching real life where passion turns to grapefruit juice and where the hero invariably gets his head knocked...