Hollywood Going Good
UOLLYWOOD is going good. Sex plots are on the wane. The stars are having babies and telling the world about them. The “morality clause," which figures in every contract, is being rigidly operated. Even the once wild and glamorous “It" girl, Clara Bow, is respectably married to a poor man nnd glorying in the dish-washing that accompanies her new sphere of life. Now in the midst of all this “decency drive” a number of gangsters' girl friends have been trying to break into films, but they have had their offensive arrested at the entrance gates of the studios. Some film critics advance a theory that the wave of respectability is attributable to declining box-office returns. Marie Dressier has superseded Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo as unchallenged queen of the box offices. Close behind her comes Janet Gaynor. In Hollywood's production schedule for 1932-33 sex themes number only 19, as against 33 last year, and what are glibly known as “flaming youth" plots total IC—last year 28.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17911, 15 October 1932, Page 10
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169Hollywood Going Good Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17911, 15 October 1932, Page 10
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