Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)

1940-05-29

(US) •

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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.

Movie Cast

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Ann Morriss

Mary

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Naomi Childers

Mary's Mother

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

George Lessey

Mary's Father

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

May McAvoy

Saleslady

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Adrian

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Lew Ayres

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Lionel Barrymore

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Wallace Beery

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Bruce Cabot

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Claudette Colbert

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Joan Crawford

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Nelson Eddy

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Clark Gable

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Greta Garbo

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Judy Garland

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Fay Holden

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Marsha Hunt

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Hedy Lamarr

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Vivien Leigh

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Myrna Loy

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Jeanette MacDonald

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Fredric March

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Chico Marx

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Groucho Marx

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Harpo Marx

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Ilona Massey

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Frank Morgan

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Maureen O'Sullivan

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Laurence Olivier

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Cecilia Parker

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Eleanor Powell

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

William Powell

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Mickey Rooney

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Rosalind Russell

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Ann Rutherford

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Norma Shearer

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Ann Sothern

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

James Stewart

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Lewis Stone

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Robert Taylor

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Spencer Tracy

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Johnny Weissmüller

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Robert Young

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Frank Whitbeck

Narrator

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Greer Garson

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Margaret Sullivan

Self (archive footage)