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.

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

11 min

Actor:

Ann Morriss, Naomi Childers, George Lessey

Quality:

HD

Director:

Oliver Garver

Release:

1940

Country:

United States of America

IMDb:

6.0