Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less visible means of support, passed through Manhattan bound for Britain, Switzerland and, possibly, marriage. Readers of the tabloid New York Daily News choked on their gum when they read that Miss Hayworth looked "as pale and haggard as though she had walked all the way from Hollywood [to meet her] gold-plated boy friend from mystic India." She scurried aboard the liner Britannic, the Daily News went on, over a gangplank "ordinarily used, dock workers said, to take bodies aboard, or to carry off the ship's refuse...
...Hollywood, NBC's Al Jolson said he was getting out in May, complained: "I don't like going on the air and doing the show direct. Frankly, I don't know music and I can go flat. I'd like to do radio just like pictures-leave the imperfect stuff on the cutting-room floor...
Divorced. Robert Walker, 30, cinemactor (See Here, Private Hargrove; One Touch of Venus); by Barbara Ford, 25, daughter of Hollywood Director John Ford; after six weeks of marriage; in Los Angeles...
...months, like a ham actor overplaying a role, Hollywood has been beating its breast and wailing about the hard times. There is plenty of reason for wailing. Studios like Warner and RKO are carrying on only token operations; Eagle-Lion has suspended production. The foreign market is shot, the cost of making pictures has risen skyhigh, like everything else, and who can predict what damage television will eventually do to the movie industry...
Last week, the heads of all the studios had called a conference to face these grim issues, wrestle with them and perhaps make a public announcement. The meeting was postponed-to some vague future date. The black basic facts of the Hollywood depression have not changed, but suddenly it is no longer fashionable to talk hard times. Studio chiefs admit that there were only 36 feature pictures in production last week-but instead of comparing that with the 49 of two years ago, they prefer to remember that this time last year there were only...