Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Snake Pit. Hollywood's hard, honest look at mental illness, with a chillingly good performance by Olivia de Havilland (TIME...
Whim of Iron. Porter's life story has another deficiency as a movie plot. His 1919 Paris marriage to a wealthy beauty, Linda Lee Thomas, has been placid, childless, fashionable-and free of both the romantic hubbub and the folksiness that Hollywood prefers in its patterned fictions. Intimates describe the Porters as "great, devoted friends." They live on the 41st floor of Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, and from time to time share the mirrored elegance of his California summer place in Brentwood (complete with a swimming pool that lights up at night), or her luxurious house in Williamstown...
Pearls & Sauce Cooks. A man who can afford to get tired of a place, he would take to train, plane or steamship whenever the urge hit him. He once turned up a week late on a trip from Hollywood to Manhattan to work on Red, Hot and Blue. He explained to his collaborators, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, that he had detoured to Callander, Ont., to get a look at the Dionne quintuplets. Once, drinking dark beer in Munich with a Yale crony, Monty Woolley, he decided to follow the trail of the brew as it grew lighter; they wound...
...accident, which Porter seldom mentions and never complains about, has made him seem a more serious man than he once was. He is already at work on a score for a new show that Subber & Ayers plan for next fall; this week he leaves for Hollywood to help cast a second company of Kiss Me, Kate, which may turn out to be the biggest smash of his career...
...Hollywood, which is notoriously touchy about harsh words from outsiders, listened last week to a plain-spoken spat between two of its own. Producer Sam Goldwyn began it by deciding to toss in his lot with the independent film producers (S.I.M.P.P.). He announced that he was quitting the two trade associations of the major studios (M.P.A.A. and A.M.P.P.), because "there must be a return to real free enterprise in our industry." Dapper Eric Johnston, who heads them both, took a deep breath and fired...