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Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)
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Short | 11 min | Documentary, Short

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Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)

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Short | 11 min | Documentary, Short

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 father and his daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer ...See moreThis 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 father and his daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in Susan and God. Then the scene shifts to Hollywood and MGM's chief of costume design (Adrian) to show how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features. Written by David Glagovsky See less

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46 cast members

Name	Known for
Ann Morriss Mary Mary See fewer	The Women (1939)
Naomi Childers Mary's Mother Mary's Mother See fewer	The Gay Lord Quex (1919)
George Lessey Mary's Father Mary's Father See fewer	The Corsican Brothers (1915)
May McAvoy Saleslady Saleslady See fewer	The Jazz Singer (1927)
Adrian Self Self See fewer	Rope (1948)
Lew Ayres Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Holiday (1938)
Lionel Barrymore Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Wallace Beery Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	A Date with Judy (1948)
Bruce Cabot Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	King Kong (1933)
Claudette Colbert Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	It Happened One Night (1934)
Joan Crawford Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Nelson Eddy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Let Freedom Ring (1939)
Clark Gable Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	It Happened One Night (1934)
Greta Garbo Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Ninotchka (1939)
Judy Garland Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Greer Garson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Fay Holden Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Marsha Hunt Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Hedy Lamarr Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Samson and Delilah (1949)
Vivien Leigh Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Myrna Loy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Thin Man (1934)
Jeanette MacDonald Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Cairo (1942)
Fredric March Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Chico Marx Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Duck Soup (1933)
Groucho Marx Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	A Night at the Opera (1935)
Harpo Marx Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	A Night at the Opera (1935)
Ilona Massey Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Frank Morgan Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Maureen O'Sullivan Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Thin Man (1934)
Laurence Olivier Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Sleuth (1972)
Cecilia Parker Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Ah Wilderness! (1935)
Eleanor Powell Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Born to Dance (1936)
William Powell Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Thin Man (1934)
Mickey Rooney Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
Rosalind Russell Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Auntie Mame (1958)
Ann Rutherford Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Gone with the Wind (1939)
Norma Shearer Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Divorcee (1930)
Ann Sothern Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Lady Be Good (1941)
James Stewart Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Vertigo (1958)
Lewis Stone Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
Margaret Sullivan Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Rather (2023)
Robert Taylor Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Bribe (1949)
Spencer Tracy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Johnny Weissmuller Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Robert Young Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Crossfire (1947)
Frank Whitbeck Narrator (voice) (uncredited) Narrator (voice) (uncredited) See fewer	Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949)