Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

1940

Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Oliver Garver

Cast

Adrian as Self

Ann Morriss as Mary

Bruce Cabot as Self

Claudette Colbert as Self

George Lessey as Mary's Father

Lew Ayres as Self

Lionel Barrymore as Self

May McAvoy as Saleslady