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Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Release Date: May 29, 1940
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Genres: 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.

Featured Cast: click image to view more
Ann Morriss | Mary
Naomi Childers | Mary's Mother
George Lessey | Mary's Father
May McAvoy | Saleslady
Adrian | Self
Lew Ayres | Self
Featured Crew
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Oliver Garver | Director
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David Snell | Music
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Jack Ruggiero | Editor
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Jackson Rose | Director of Photography