It had gone big with the Hollywood girls when he told them his sister was an editor of Art And Apparel.

The radio broadcast of the September 8, 1937 Hollywood Bowl George Gershwin Memorial Concert, in which An American in Paris, also conducted by Shilkret, was second on the program, was recorded and was released in 1998 in a two-CD set.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

His studio, The Factory, was a famous gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons.

She was honored with a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2005 for her contributions to the entertainment industry.

In 1997, the episode " Hedda Hopper's Hollywood " was ranked # 62 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.

Although the European film industry was then in its ascendancy, Bardot was one of the few European actresses to have the mass media's attention in the United States, an interest which she did not reciprocate by rarely, if ever, going to Hollywood.

Patterson claimed to have screened the film for unnamed technicians " in the special effects department at Universal Studios in Hollywood ... Their conclusion was: ' We could try ( faking it ), but we would have to create a completely new system of artificial muscles and find an actor who could be trained to walk like that.

cosmetics, Morris told the TV program Access Hollywood that she was aware of her apparent consideration for the role and was excited about it.

Dating back to 1932, " Tollywood " was the earliest Hollywood-inspired name, referring to the Bengali film industry based in Tollygunge, Calcutta, whose name is reminiscent of " Hollywood " and was the center of the cinema of India at the time .< ref name = Sarkar >

The 1960 Hollywood film version of the story, Esther and the King, was directed by Raoul Walsh and starred Joan Collins and Richard Egan.

His production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, was the most successful and innovative star-driven independent production company in Hollywood of the 1950s, making movies such as Marty ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), and Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ).

If Chins Could Kill ... was published in 2002 and follows Campbell's career to date as an actor in low-budget films and television, providing his insight into " Blue-Collar Hollywood ".

In 1961, Bixby was in the musical The Boy Friend at the Detroit Civic Theater, returning to Hollywood to make his television debut on an episode of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

An accomplished amateur magician himself, he hosted several TV specials in the mid-1970s which featured other amateur magicians, and was a respected member of the Hollywood magic community, belonging to The Magic Castle, an exclusive club for magicians.

By the time The Circus was released, Hollywood had witnessed the introduction of sound films.

Filming in England proved a difficult experience, as he was used to his own Hollywood studio and familiar crew.

In Hollywood, a screening of a restored version of How to Make Movies was held at his former studio, and in Japan, he was honoured with a musical tribute.

Chaplin was also given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1970, after having been excluded due to his political beliefs when the project was initially started in 1958.

In reference to the dish barbecued dog in The Hollywood Hall of Shame, the authors explain that it was " a snack which produced a mixed reaction among the representatives of an industry that had given the world Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, Benji, Phyllis Diller, and Muki the Wonder Hound.

On February 8, 1960 he was posthumously given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6322 Hollywood Boulevard.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry Sennett was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6712 Hollywood Blvd.

Tiffany Pollard, originally a contestant on Flavor of Love, was eventually given four additional reality series of her own on VH1: I Love New York, I Love New York 2, New York Goes to Hollywood and New York Goes to Work.

Later Lethal Weapon ( 1987 ), proved that low-budget action plots ( like a maverick cop with martial arts skills fighting drug traffickers ), given the " Hollywood A-list " treatment ( bigger budgets, more talented casts, etc.

Hollywood Babylon recounts a story that Valentino had given Novarro an art deco dildo as a gift, which was found stuffed in his throat at the time of his murder.

William Wilkerson of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: " This sterling performer has finally been given an opportunity to show an ability that has been boxed in by gangster roles ... film has introduced Mr. Tracy as one of the screen's best performers ".

In 1952, Burton successfully made the transition to a Hollywood star ; on the recommendation of Daphne du Maurier, he was given the leading role in My Cousin Rachel opposite Olivia de Havilland.

was given a staged reading at two public performances in Hollywood on 10 – 11 November 2007.

Although Hollywood Squares was a legitimate game show, the game largely acted as the background for the show's comedy in the form of joke answers, often given by the stars prior to their " real " answer.

The final season saw Hollywood Squares return to the best two-of-three format that had last been seen on the NBC network daytime series ; each game was worth $ 1, 000, the first to win two advanced to the bonus round, and players were no longer given cash as a consolation prize for failing to win a game.

The system developed by Case and his assistant, Earl Sponable, given the name Movietone, thus became the first viable sound-on-film technology controlled by a Hollywood movie studio.

Ironically, given her role in galvanizing Hollywood resistance to Soviet influence, de Havilland was denounced that same year ( along with Danny Kaye, Frederic March, and Edward G. Robinson ) as a " swimming-pool pink " by Time magazine and called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1958 due to her vocal liberal activism in this period.

During the 1970s, relatively young directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, and William Friedkin were given unprecedentedly large budgets with very little studio control ( see New Hollywood ).

Although his political involvement upset the owners of the film studios, he continued to be given work and in 1947 became one of the highest paid scriptwriters in Hollywood when he signed a contract with 20th Century Fox at $ 2, 000 a week.

* For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Bow was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, in his review for the Chicago Reader, praised Holly Hunter's performance as " something of a revelation: her short, feisty, socially gauche, aggressive-compulsive character may be the most intricately layered portrait of a career woman that contemporary Hollywood has given us ".

In addition, he has received numerous tributes at Canadian and international film festivals and retrospectives, and has been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Canada's Walk of Fame.

In 1981, he was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was one of the first inductees to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at its inaugural ceremony in 1986.

Three years later, he was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame after several letters of support were sent in request for a star, a process that lasted over two years and was supported by celebrities such as Eddie Murphy.

On February 6, 2012, the group was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

He was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7065 Hollywood Boulevard.