Hollywood: Style Center of the World
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.
- Overview
- Cast
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Hollywood: Style Center of the World
- Overview
- Cast
- Crew
- Recommendations
Status
Released
Release Date
May 29, 1940
Runtime
0h 11m
Genres
Documentary
User Score
55%
Original Title
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Production Companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Director
Oliver Garver
Description
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.