Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ramsey, with his bobbing eyebrows and familiar stutter, was a colorful man whom Hollywood might have cast in the archiepiscopal role. No evangelist, he was primarily interested in ecumenism, theology and social issues. Appropriately for a High Church man, his major accomplishment was his rapprochement with Roman Catholicism, which led to agreements on the Eucharist and the ministry by a joint theological commission. His major failure, perhaps, was the defeat of his plan to merge with the Methodists, England's third largest church group after the Anglicans and Roman Catholics; the Anglican General Synod turned down Ramsey...
Died. Eleanor Tennant, 79, first U.S. woman tennis pro, who taught the game to stars of the court and the Hollywood screen; in La Jolla, Calif. Lean and leathery, Tennant changed women's tennis from a defensive base-line game into an aggressive, serve-and-smash attack. Third-ranked U.S. woman player in 1920, she soon started coaching and made Wimbledon champions of Alice Marble, Maureen Connolly and Bobby Riggs. "Teach," as she was nicknamed by one of her finest show-biz pupils, Carole Lombard, was also courtside mentor of Clark Gable, Marlene Dietrich and Groucho Marx...
...chauvinistic moment Gene Kelly once asked, "What movie musical even worth noting has been produced under any auspices except Hollywood's?" There was no answer. There never has been. American movies learned to sing at the same moment they learned to talk: the first sound movie, The Jazz Singer, in 1927 starring Al Jolson, was a musical and a smash...
...when every performer was expected to carry a tune. In Born to Dance, Jimmy Stewart reaches for a high note and almost pulls it down; Clark Gable gives Idiot's Delight its few moments of radiance; a klutzy but indomitable Joan Crawford steps her way up from The Hollywood Revue...
...film's funniest portions belong neither to Astaire nor Kelly nor to any of the meticulously choreographed clown scenes of the '50s. In clip after clip, they are outdone by unintentional comedy. The Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald epic Rose Marie (1936) offers the couple known to Hollywood as the Singing Capon and the Iron Butterfly in a Canadian Mountie scene that must be heard to be disbelieved. Even in the '40s, MGM knew that there were different strokes for different folks. Esther Williams could do them all, in a series of swimming-pool epics that for elaborate...