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Poster Hollywood: Style Center of the World

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.

  • Released: May 29, 1940
  • Runtime: 0h 11min
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Stars: Ann Morriss, Naomi Childers, George Lessey
  • Director: Oliver Garver
  • Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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