Hollywood: Style Center of the World

5.5(2 votes)

1940

0h 11m

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.

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Production

Companies:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Languages

Original:en

Spoken:

English

Cast

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

Bruce Cabot

Self

Claudette Colbert

Self

Joan Crawford

Self

Nelson Eddy

Self

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