Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

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Hollywood: Style Center of the World

1940

0h 11m

5.5(2 votes)

Documentary

Overview

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.

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Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Cast & Crew

46 members

Acting

Ann Morriss

Mary

Ann Morriss

Acting

Naomi Childers

Mary's Mother

Naomi Childers

Acting

George Lessey

Mary's Father

George Lessey

Acting

May McAvoy

Saleslady

May McAvoy

Costume & Make-Up

Adrian

Self

Adrian

Acting

Lew Ayres

Self

Lew Ayres

Acting

Lionel Barrymore

Self

Lionel Barrymore

Acting

Wallace Beery

Self

Wallace Beery

Acting

Bruce Cabot

Self

Bruce Cabot

Acting

Claudette Colbert

Self

Claudette Colbert

Acting

Joan Crawford

Self

Joan Crawford

Acting

Nelson Eddy

Self

Nelson Eddy

Acting

Clark Gable

Self

Clark Gable

Acting

Greta Garbo

Self

Greta Garbo

Acting

Judy Garland

Self

Judy Garland

Acting

Fay Holden

Self

Fay Holden

Acting

Marsha Hunt

Self

Marsha Hunt

Acting

Hedy Lamarr

Self

Hedy Lamarr

Acting

Vivien Leigh

Self

Vivien Leigh

Acting

Myrna Loy

Self

Myrna Loy

Acting

Jeanette MacDonald

Self

Jeanette MacDonald

Acting

Fredric March

Self

Fredric March

Acting

Chico Marx

Self

Chico Marx

Acting

Groucho Marx

Self

Groucho Marx

Acting

Harpo Marx

Self

Harpo Marx

Acting

Ilona Massey

Self

Ilona Massey

Acting

Frank Morgan

Self

Frank Morgan

Acting

Maureen O'Sullivan

Self

Maureen O'Sullivan

Acting

Laurence Olivier

Self

Laurence Olivier

Acting

Cecilia Parker

Self

Cecilia Parker

Acting

Eleanor Powell

Self

Eleanor Powell

Acting

William Powell

Self

William Powell

Acting

Mickey Rooney

Self

Mickey Rooney

Acting

Rosalind Russell

Self

Rosalind Russell

Acting

Ann Rutherford

Self

Ann Rutherford

Acting

Norma Shearer

Self

Norma Shearer

Acting

Ann Sothern

Self

Ann Sothern

Acting

James Stewart

Self

James Stewart

Acting

Lewis Stone

Self

Lewis Stone

Acting

Robert Taylor

Self

Robert Taylor

Acting

Spencer Tracy

Self

Spencer Tracy

Acting

Johnny Weissmüller

Self

Johnny Weissmüller

Acting

Robert Young

Self

Robert Young

Acting

Frank Whitbeck

Narrator

No Image

Acting

Greer Garson

Self

Greer Garson

Acting

Margaret Sullivan

Self (archive footage)

Margaret Sullivan

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