Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Documentary
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.
1940-05-29
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Cast
Ann Morriss as Mary
Naomi Childers as Mary's Mother
George Lessey as Mary's Father
May McAvoy as Saleslady
Adrian as Self
Lew Ayres as Self
Lionel Barrymore as Self
Wallace Beery as Self
Bruce Cabot as Self
Claudette Colbert as Self
Joan Crawford as Self
Nelson Eddy as Self
Clark Gable as Self
Greta Garbo as Self
Judy Garland as Self
Fay Holden as Self
Marsha Hunt as Self
Hedy Lamarr as Self
Vivien Leigh as Self
Myrna Loy as Self
Jeanette MacDonald as Self
Fredric March as Self
Chico Marx as Self
Groucho Marx as Self
Harpo Marx as Self
Ilona Massey as Self
Frank Morgan as Self
Maureen O'Sullivan as Self
Laurence Olivier as Self
Cecilia Parker as Self
Eleanor Powell as Self
William Powell as Self
Mickey Rooney as Self
Rosalind Russell as Self
Ann Rutherford as Self
Norma Shearer as Self
Ann Sothern as Self
James Stewart as Self
Lewis Stone as Self
Robert Taylor as Self
Spencer Tracy as Self
Johnny Weissmüller as Self
Robert Young as Self
Greer Garson as Self
Margaret Sullivan as Self (archive footage)