Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Disneyland's financial side until his recent death. The family moved to Kansas City. Missouri, and Walt left home to try his hand at cartooning, in which he met little success, and then journalism. He worked for several of the same newspapers as Hemingway, but went West to Hollywood rather than East to Spain. After more failures with small Vaudeville routines, Disney began to produce cartoons and eventually came up with his first star, Mickey Mouse, designed not by Disney, but by his head cartoonist, Ub Iwerks. The development of more sophisticated cameras allowed Disney to create full length animated...
Died. Peter Duel, 31, co-star of ABC's popular cowboy comedy series Alias Smith and Jones; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Hollywood, An alumnus of Manhattan's American Theater Wing, Duel went to Hollywood five years ago. There he was in demand on such network television shows as Name of the Game, Combat, The Fugitive and The Bold Ones. He starred opposite Judy Carne in the series Love on a Rooftop before taking the role of Hannibal Hayes (alias Joshua Smith), one of two not quite reformed desperadoes in search of vocational guidance...
Died. Max Steiner, 83, longtime movie-score composer; in Hollywood. A Viennese prodigy, Steiner began songwriting and conducting while still a teenager. He migrated to the U.S. in 1914, wrote music and did arrangements for George White and Florenz Ziegfeld, then went to Hollywood in 1930. Of his more than 200 scores, three won Oscars-for The Informer (1935), Now Voyager (1942) and Since You Went Away...
...footed waddle of his contemporary, Charlie Chaplin; almost always there was a straw hat tilted rakishly over a roguish blue eye, a jutting lower lip, a slightly protruding derriere, and that gay boulevardier's swagger. When famed Director Ernst Lubitsch offered him the role of a prince in Hollywood, Chevalier laughingly declined, saying: "With my swinging walk, I can only play commoners...
...late '20s and early '30s he became a very highly paid American movie idol. Even Greta Garbo, for a fleeting moment, once felt that it might be nice to be with him. "Do you know how to swim, Monsieur Chevalier?" Greta asked at a dinner party in Hollywood. "Mais oui," replied Chevalier hesitantly. "Then let's go for a dip in the ocean right now," said the Swedish actress. "But it's midnight," objected the Frenchman. "Le Pacifique est glacial." Garbo never talked to Chevalier again...