Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newcomer to Ivy League activities, Woolley served as a faculty member at Yale before turning to acting and the manufacture of quotable quotes. The fur-chinned actor relived some of his earlier days in one of the Hollywood "great composers series" epics, "Night...
...after suffering a series of dizzy spells, Allen quit radio for a year. During his vacation he went to Hollywood to make Love Thy Neighbor, and returned with a few Alienisms on the West Coast. Sample: "California is a wonderful place to live-if you're an orange...
Married. Louis Burt Mayer, 63, durable, diamond-smooth cinemogul (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's, Inc.); and Mrs. Lorena Layson Danker, 41, Hollywood widow; each for the second time (he was divorced last April after 43 years of marriage) ; in Yuma, Ariz...
Fighter Squadron (Warner) is a war movie about U.S. flyers who operated from bases in England. It is a moderately successful blend of Hollywood histrionics and actual combat films from World War II. Its producers made a sincere effort to mix the two elements. The combat footage was used as a core for the story, rather than dragged in as a touch of "realism." The all-male cast is given convincing all-male dialogue, and there is a painless minimum of comic relief. Above all, there is skillful exploitation of the fierce beauty of aerial battle photography...
Tough little Willie Bioff, big-shot labor racketeer, was testifying. "We had about 20 percent of Hollywood when we got in trouble. If we hadn't got loused up we'd of had 50 percent. I had Hollywood dancin' to my tune." Willie's compelling tune was extortion; the insistent drumbeat in the background was the threat of physical violence. Studio employees and motion-picture-machine operators joined his labor union-or else. Hollywood studio czars chipped in millions to stop the music -and keep their studios running. What finally "loused up" Willie...