Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...location shooting of "Murder at Harvard" will begin March 1 if the University gives Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer permission to go ahead with the semi-documentary film based on the Department of Legal Medicine at the Medical School, Hollywood producer Frank Taylor said last night...
Insane minds have become a favorite study of Hollywood dramas, but the psychological twist has generally been used as modern gloss to the standard boy-meets-girl glamor. In even the best of these, the deranged mind was merely held up as an interesting object to look at. "The Snake Pit," however, void of all hints of Hollywood glamor, achieves the startling effect of entering the diseased mind and reflecting its horrors and fears--its despair in groping in darkness for a ray of light. The mind is not exhibited but analyzed; the audience not merely understands it but feels...
...agreement is reached for the use of "Harvard" in the title and throughout the script, the movie will deal "factually" with the activities of the department, Dr. Alan R. Moritz, Francis Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine, said last night, although advance rumors suggest that Hollywood may treat it as a "crime clinic...
...Standard Hollywood "Morals Clause...
...writers, producers and directors dredged up last year by the congressional investigation of Communism in Hollywood was 44-year-old Screenwriter Lester Cole, a balding little man who earned up to $1,350 a week turning out such epics as The Romance of Rosy Ridge and Fiesta for MGM. Like the others, he had refused to say whether or not he was then or ever had been a member of the Communist Party. After he was cited for contempt of Congress, M-G-M suspended him from his job, giving as its reason the charge that he had violated...