Hollywood: Style Center of the World
- Released on
- Runtime
- 11 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Ann Morriss
- Naomi Childers
- George Lessey
- May McAvoy
- Adrian
- Lew Ayres
- Lionel Barrymore
- Wallace Beery
- Bruce Cabot
- Claudette Colbert
- Joan Crawford
- Nelson Eddy
- Clark Gable
- Greta Garbo
- Judy Garland
- Fay Holden
- Marsha Hunt
- Hedy Lamarr
- Vivien Leigh
- Myrna Loy
- Jeanette MacDonald
- Fredric March
- Chico Marx
- Groucho Marx
- Harpo Marx
- Ilona Massey
- Frank Morgan
- Maureen O'Sullivan
- Laurence Olivier
- Cecilia Parker
- Eleanor Powell
- William Powell
- Mickey Rooney
- Rosalind Russell
- Ann Rutherford
- Norma Shearer
- Ann Sothern
- James Stewart
- Lewis Stone
- Robert Taylor
- Spencer Tracy
- Johnny Weissmüller
- Robert Young
- Frank Whitbeck
- Greer Garson
- Margaret Sullivan
Director
- Oliver Garver
