Watch Streaming Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940) : Movie Online 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. | ||
Release Date | : | May 29, 1940 |
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Genres | : | Documentary |
Production Company | : | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Production Countries | : | United States of America |
Casts | : | Ann Morriss, Naomi Childers, George Lessey, May McAvoy, Adrian, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Bruce Cabot, Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford |
Plot Keywords | : | fashion, promotional, old hollywood, short film |
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