Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jones band, and when Jones dissolved the group in 1936, Woody reorganized it as "the Band That Plays the Blues." By the early 1940s, he was ready to gallop with the Herds. For the past 24 years he has spent only about six weeks a year in the hilltop Hollywood home overlooking Sunset Boulevard that used to belong to Humphrey Bogart. The rest of the time he is on the road, playing 200 or more concerts a year, taking his wife Charlotte along on the bigger trips...
Died. Inger Stevens, 35, Swedish-born movie and TV star (The Farmer's Daughter); of an overdose of barbiturates; in Hollywood. A onetime chorus girl, she played TV roles in Studio One and Kraft Theater productions in the mid-1950s, won notice in Hollywood, where she appeared opposite Bing Crosby in Man on Fire, and went on to star in many more films, most recently A Dream of Kings...
Died. Anita Louise, 53, blonde Hollywood veteran who starred in more than 70 films; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. A trouper since the age of five when she played in The Sixth Commandment, she was regarded as the most beautiful woman in films during the late 1930s. Her roles ran the Hollywood gamut (Casanova Brown; Retreat, Hell!), but she confessed a preference for period and costume pictures (Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Marie Antoinette in Madame Du Barry...
Died. Ed Begley, 69, winner of Hollywood's and Broadway's highest honors; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Begley started out in radio in 1931, was heard in a number of roles, including Charlie Chan, and was in his mid-40s before turning to films. He was usually cast as the heavy, won critical plaudits in The Great Gatsby, Twelve Angry Men, and most notably, Sweet Bird of Youth, which gained him a 1962 Oscar. Broadway audiences remember him best as the glowering Matthew Harrison Brady in 1955's Inherit the Wind, for which...
...originated only in the eye of a crocodile. She will be 80 on May 15, and the jewels she wears to parties in her honor are the recently won trophies of a long campaign. The stories, many of them set in her native Texas, brought honors, fellowships, sabbaticals in Hollywood and the rest of the grants-in-aid that serious critics indirectly confer upon writers by writing favorable opinions...