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.
Release Date: 1940-05-29
Documentary
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Casts
Ann Morriss
as Mary
Naomi Childers
as Mary's Mother
George Lessey
as Mary's Father
May McAvoy
as Saleslady
Adrian
as Self
Lew Ayres
as Self
Lionel Barrymore
as Self
Wallace Beery
as Self
Bruce Cabot
as Self
Claudette Colbert
as Self
