Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Dalton Trumbo, 70, prolific screenwriter and one of the Hollywood Ten who refused to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947; of heart failure; in Los Angeles. Because he would not say whether he was or ever had been a member of the Screen Writers' Guild or of the Communist Party, Trumbo served ten months in prison and was blacklisted for 13 years by Hollywood. Under pseudonyms he wrote some 30 scripts, including The Brave One, which won "Robert Rich" an Academy Award in 1957. In 1960 Trumbo wrote Exodus under his own name, following...
...kind of alike, and I think something is really there between us," purred Faye Dunaway, 35, considering her newest costar. Teamed with Hollywood Veteran Bette Davis, 68, Faye plays the title role in Sister Aimee, a Hallmark Hall of Fame production based on the life of California Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. Davis, who unsuccessfully sought a Sister Aimee movie role some three decades ago, belatedly settled for the part of McPherson's domineering mother on the mid-November TV show. No hard feelings, though. "Good God, Bette's been a star since...
...hair down and plastered top-to-toe in Mississippi mud. Raffin's dive was all for the sake of Nightmare in Badham County, a TV movie in which she plays a prison-farm escapee on the run through the swamps. Raffin, 23, who last starred in a Hollywood turkey overgenerously titled Once Is Not Enough, says the gooey assignment was "the best role" she had ever been offered: "It gave me a chance, I hope, to show some depth and emotion." And the mud? "It was worth...
...from the Creation to Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac) and Luke 1-2 (the Annunciation, the Nativity and Jesus' youth). They were filmed in the sere landscape of the Holy Land and neighboring areas, using largely unknown actors. One exception: Topol, the Israeli star of Hollywood's Fiddler on the Roof, who portrays Abraham...
...battles in Midway earlier this summer, film makers are currently at work on A Bridge Too Far, Producer Joseph E. Levine's version of the battle of Arnhem in World War II, and Apocalypse Now, Director Francis Ford Coppola's vision of Viet Nam. Last week MacArthur, Hollywood's newest bombs-and-bullets epic, began production, with Gregory Peck starring as the general who made a famous return to the Philippines in 1944-and an equally notorious departure from Korea seven years later. "For better or for worse, if I'm remembered...