Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Virginia State Chamber of Commerce were thrown into a state of delighted anticipation by news that 1) two Soviet aviators had flown a stolen Russian plane to Linz, Austria, and taken refuge with U.S. forces there, and 2) that each had voiced a desire to see, not Hollywood or the Statue of Liberty, but the Commonwealth of Virginia. They had heard its glories sung on a Voice of America broadcast beamed to the U.S.S.R...
...therefore really incredible that the new motion-picture, "Joan of Arc," is such a very bad one. Considering the talent and the story, a worse job could not have been done. It is garish, turgid, and tedious. Its heavy-handedness and stupidity exemplifies much that is wrong with Hollywood. It is Joan of the Arc Lights...
Some of you may have thought that the Nineteenth Century mortgage melodrama was dead, but if so, you have sadly underestimated Hollywood's talent for reincarnation. "In "The Girl from Mauhattan," the second picture at the Pilgrim, the mortgage foreclosure appears with all its hideous threats and Dorothy Lamour as the hapless victim. But a few enticing twists have been added. The villain doing the foreclosing is, of all things, a church looking for a new site, and the hero is an all-American fullback turned minister. Dorothy Lamour, Charles Laughton, and George Montgomery are all involved in this hideous...
...this age of Hollywood blood-and-thunder war movies, all of which preach some sort of a hackneyed message, there is nothing more refreshing than to see a brilliant war film like the twelve year-old "Grand Illusion." Starring Erich von Stroheim and Jean Gabin, this old-French epic concerns the fate of a group of French prisoners in Germany during the first World...
...Films, Harvard's undergraduate Hollywood, finished shooting its first production a week ago. Now, after slashing away at over 8000 feet of uncut film, the outfit has 70 minutes worth of comic fantasy, a true "Touch of the Times," ready for sheak preview Wednesday...