Hollywood: Style Center of the World

May 29, 1940

0h 11m

★ 5.5

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Hollywood: Style Center of the World Trailers

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Cast

Mary

Ann Morriss

Mary's Mother

Naomi Childers

Mary's Father

George Lessey

Saleslady

May McAvoy

Self

Adrian

Self

Lew Ayres

Self

Lionel Barrymore

Self

Wallace Beery

Self

Bruce Cabot

Self

Claudette Colbert

Self

Joan Crawford

Self

Nelson Eddy

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