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Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

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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.