Word: hollywoodman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Without Reservations is a pleasure to watch because it is written, directed and played with uncommon competence. Director Mervyn LeRoy, another seasoned Hollywoodman, knows that the first thing a good movie must do is move. Result: the film has the rare virtues of sustained mood and sustained pace...
...archtypical Hollywoodman, John Decker, 47, was born in San Francisco. In his young manhood he appeared briefly on the stage, remembers playing a part in a Maxwell Bodenheim-Ben Hecht playlet called Master Poisoners. When his theatrical career flopped, he launched himself as an independent artist by cleverly copycatting famed portraits in which he substituted the face of his current sitter. Decker's first work of this kind was an "old master" portrait of divinely crosseyed Comedian Ben Turpin. Then he painted Charlie Chaplin in the style of twelve old & new masters including Frans Hals, Picasso, Howard Chandler Christy...
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