May 29, 1940
11 min
Full-HD

Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)

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.

Category

Documentary

Country

United States of America

Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Ann Morriss

Mary

Naomi Childers

Mary's Mother

George Lessey

Mary's Father

May McAvoy

Saleslady

Adrian

Self

Lew Ayres

Self

Lionel Barrymore

Self

Wallace Beery

Self

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