Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When agreement was finally reached and rough changes had been made, it was then necessary to make the actual finished emendations and additions in this Technicolor picture via all the technical processes at the studio. Thereafter, it was also necessary to revise 475 prints scattered in exchanges throughout the U.S. I made a statement Dec. 5, announcing the changes, and Dec. 8 the Legion of Decency followed up by announcing that the picture had been put in the "B" ("objectionable in part") classification...
...stride until middle age, when sudden fame as an interpreter of the American scene-a sort of Theodore Dreiser in art-freed him. Nowadays, Hopper and his wife, who keeps her own painting studiously in the background, can afford a house on Cape Cod as well as their Manhattan studio apartment overlooking Washington Square...
Seldom has Hollywood been so frightened about its future. In a panicky wave of economy, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had cut its payroll 40%-wiping out one entire echelon of executives. Columbia Pictures had fired 25% of its employees, and RKO's Gower Street studio had been dark for ten days. This week the entire industry was shooting only 25 pictures. Even though the first of the year is always a low point, this was not quite half as many pictures as were under way at the same time last year...
...Manhattan, ski-nosed Comedienne Bea Lillie ended her day at RCA Victor's big, bare Studio 2 just two minutes before midnight. She did her own offbeat version of Atlanta, a number from Inside U.S.A., a musical show that won't hit Broadway until March...
...Early American." In spite of Hollywood's bad reputation for misusing talent, studios normally try hard with anyone they regard as promising. With Peck, the moviemakers were inclined to outdo themselves. Each studio needed a major male star, and Peck looked like a good risk. Moreover, since no studio had been able to snare him outright, each was determined to sweat the best possible use out of him. Peck was inadvertently handed some bum pictures; but each one was a major production. And during his first years, he had the run of a virtually clear field. Since...