Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

11 mins | Documentary | May 29, 1940

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.

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

11 mins | Documentary | May 29, 1940

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.
IMDb rating 4.8
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Directors Oliver Garver
Writers

Cast

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

Wallace Beery

as Self

Bruce Cabot

as Self

Joan Crawford

as Self

Nelson Eddy

as Self

Clark Gable

as Self

Greta Garbo

as Self

Judy Garland

as Self

Fay Holden

as Self

Marsha Hunt

as Self

Hedy Lamarr

as Self

Vivien Leigh

as Self

Myrna Loy

as Self

Fredric March

as Self

Chico Marx

as Self

Groucho Marx

as Self

Harpo Marx

as Self

Ilona Massey

as Self

Frank Morgan

as Self

Cecilia Parker

as Self

Eleanor Powell

as Self

William Powell

as Self

Mickey Rooney

as Self

Ann Rutherford

as Self

Norma Shearer

as Self

Ann Sothern

as Self

James Stewart

as Self

Lewis Stone

as Self

Robert Taylor

as Self

Spencer Tracy

as Self

Robert Young

as Self

Frank Whitbeck

as Narrator

Greer Garson

as Self