Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie which Rossellini plans to make with Bergman is to be filmed in Italy and will not be the sort of thing that Hollywood would do with a major star. She will be the only professional in the company. ("I don't need stars," says Rossellini, "but I have nothing against Miss Bergman because she is a star.") The rest of the cast will be picked up on location. As usual, Rossellini will work without a script; except for a 22-page synopsis, the story's details are all in his head...
Actress Bergman is all for Rossellini's non-Hollywood method. If she can begin he picture in April, it will probably be released next fall. Meanwhile, Rossellini is quietly turning down all Hollywood offers. Says he: "I am not one who says Hollywood is terrible . . . Hollywood is a great place. It is like a sausage factory that turns out fine sausages. I go back to Italy where I have freedom...
...Bribe (MGM) puts Robert Taylor to work at one of Hollywood's most dog-eared formulas: U.S. Government agent falls for girl, finds she is innocent wife (or sister) of crook he is out to get. It always winds up with the hero facing both guns and a moral dilemma...
...Snake Pit. Hollywood's hard, honest look at mental illness, with a chillingly good performance by Olivia de Havilland (TIME...
...featured with "Rogues Regiment" is a Hollywood heartwarmer entitled "Big city." It features the cop on the Beat (George Murphy), a good-hearted gamin (Butch Jenkins), and sundry other people you want to avoid. Worst of all it has Margaret O'Brien. This observer has always felt that M-G-M's Margaret is an ill-tempered, abnormal, sniveling little wretch; the sooner she reaches the awkward age the better...