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.

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

11 minutes

Year:

1940

Director:

Oliver Garver

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Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Cast:

Mary

Mary's Mother

Mary's Father

Saleslady

Self

Crew:

Director

Music

Editor

Director of Photography