Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been engaged in a long, bitter, on-&-off feud with her cinemactress sister, Joan Fontaine (no one has figured out any specific reason for the ill-feeling, beyond the fact that both are high-strung young women and in a sense professional rivals). She has, during a decade as "Hollywood's Bachelor Girl," been "linked" romantically in the gossip columns with many of the community's most prominent men, from Jimmy Stewart to Howard Hughes. She is suspected of being an "intellectual." She has a hardheaded, serious-minded approach to her career (she is probably Hollywood...
...professional career started under the cold, sharp eye of the great Max Reinhardt. On the recommendation of a friend of a friend, Reinhardt hired her as understudy to the understudy of Hermia in his 1934 Hollywood Bowl production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. True to the old backstage plot tradition, the first-string Hermia got a movie offer, the second-stringer fell ill, and Olivia took the part. Movie Producer Henry Blanke, who dropped in on one of the rehearsals, noticed her. He thought she would be right for Hermia in the movie version of Dream which...
With a will as hard as the heart of a front-office executive, Olivia prepared to fight Hollywood for a place as an actress. To build up a reserve, she saved money, chiefly by cutting down on clothes. When Warner tried to put her back into the slush-mines after lending her out to play Melanie in Gone With the Wind, she rebelled and was suspended for a total of six months. Her seven-year contract at last expired (in 1943) and Warner tried to make her serve the extra six months she had "lost." Against the advice of everyone...
...What's the Guy Got?" Nothing has surprised students of Olivia de Havil-land's case history more than her 1946 marriage to Marcus Goodrich. Hollywood knew little about him, except that he had written one Kiplingesque novel (Delilah), and had been married four times. She was 30, he 48. "I can't understand it," said one of her friends recently. "What has this guy got? If he was some young punk who just bowled her over . . . But how, how could this happen...
...watches over her, keeps an eye on her business and social engagements, sees that she gets enough sleep, discourages overwork. She rarely stops acting (or rehearsing) when she leaves the set. During the shooting of The Snake Pit she practiced her screams so convincingly at home that soon all Hollywood was abuzz with the story that that man Goodrich was beating his wife. To disprove it, Goodrich finally took to sitting in the patio in full view of the neighbors while Olivia went on screaming inside...