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Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Film

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

5.5

0h 11m

1940

Synopsis

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features.

Director

Oliver Garver

Documentary

fashionpromotionalold hollywoodshort film

Cast & Crew

Ann Morriss

Ann Morriss

as Mary

Naomi Childers

Naomi Childers

as Mary's Mother

George Lessey

George Lessey

as Mary's Father

May McAvoy

May McAvoy

as Saleslady

Adrian

Adrian

as Self

Lew Ayres

Lew Ayres

as Self

Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore

as Self

Wallace Beery

Wallace Beery

as Self

Bruce Cabot

Bruce Cabot

as Self

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