Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Watch hollywood: style center of the world soap2day. 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.
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: United States
- Director: Oliver Garver
- Cast: Ann Morriss, Naomi Childers, George Lessey, May McAvoy, Adrian, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Bruce Cabot, Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford, Nelson Eddy, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, Fay Holden, Marsha Hunt, Hedy Lamarr, Vivien Leigh, Myrna Loy, Jeanette MacDonald,
