Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940-05-29 | 11 minutes
Plot Summary
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
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Ann MorrissMary
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Naomi ChildersMary's Mother
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George LesseyMary's Father
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May McAvoySaleslady
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AdrianSelf
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Lew AyresSelf
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Lionel BarrymoreSelf
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Wallace BeerySelf
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Bruce CabotSelf
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Claudette ColbertSelf
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Joan CrawfordSelf
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Nelson EddySelf
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Clark GableSelf
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Greta GarboSelf
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Judy GarlandSelf
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Fay HoldenSelf
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Marsha HuntSelf
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Hedy LamarrSelf
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Vivien LeighSelf
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Myrna LoySelf
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