Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940 • Documentary
Oliver Garver
Director
Status
Released
Release date
May 29, 1940
Duration
11 Min
Language
en
Popularity
0.2188
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
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.
Cast
Ann Morriss
Naomi Childers
George Lessey
May McAvoy
Adrian
Lew Ayres
Lionel Barrymore
Wallace Beery
Bruce Cabot
Claudette Colbert
Joan Crawford
Nelson Eddy
Clark Gable
Greta Garbo
Judy Garland
Fay Holden
Marsha Hunt
Hedy Lamarr
Vivien Leigh
Myrna Loy
Jeanette MacDonald
Fredric March
Chico Marx
Groucho Marx
Harpo Marx
Ilona Massey
Frank Morgan
Maureen O'Sullivan
Laurence Olivier
Cecilia Parker
Eleanor Powell
William Powell
Mickey Rooney
Rosalind Russell
Ann Rutherford
Norma Shearer
Ann Sothern
James Stewart
Lewis Stone
Robert Taylor
Spencer Tracy
Johnny Weissmüller
Robert Young
Greer Garson
Margaret Sullivan
