Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, newshens of the Women's Press Club voted Errol Flynn and Rita Hayworth* the "least cooperative" actor and actress of the year. Runners-up: Bing Crosby (a perennial) and Shirley Temple. The "most cooperative": Dorothy Lamour, past mistress of the sarong, and Glenn Ford, Rita's most recent screen leading...
...grotesquely pathetic antics of the mad. This laughter is probably no more than a release from nervous strain. In a sense, occasional nervous laughter at The Snake Pit is a measure of its excellence: U.S. moviegoers are not usually troubled by overdoses of reality. The Snake Pit suggests that Hollywood itself might even be cured some day of its own mild schizophrenia, which has made it live for so long in a world of fancy. It also suggests-at a time when Hollywood is desperately looking for a gimmick or a switcheroo to pull it out of-the "movie depression...
...generally acknowledged; its value as an enlightening document may be questioned. Some hard-to-please movie critics have suggested that the picture might be harmful to the young and to the emotionally unstable, and that it should therefore be shown only to limited audiences. Psychiatrists, who have deplored most Hollywood explorations (and vulgarizations) of their specialty, disagree; they commend The Snake Pit in terms which studio pressagents could not improve on. It has even been seriously suggested that the picture be shown to borderline cases and patients. Said one Manhattan psychiatrist: "It would give them a feeling of hope...
...most of the smaller U.S. symphony orchestras, a big-name guest soloist is a fellow who brings in a lot of money at the box office-and takes most of it away with him as he leaves the stage door. And for the Louisville Philharmonic Orchestra's money, Hollywood-priced soloists, playing the same old "boxoffice concertos" didn't advance music much anyway. So, last January, Louisville said goodbye to all that-and started saying a big hello to composers, who could be had for less...
This week the baby's formula was changed. The Mirror's sideways front page (TIME, Oct. 18) was turned right side up. The bad printing, which had also helped make the paper hard to read, was improved. Flamboyant Florabel Muir, Hollywood correspondent for the New York Daily News and writer for Variety, joined the staff of the Mirror as a part-time columnist...