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Hollywood: Style Center of the World

📅 5/29/1940⏱️ 11 minutes6.0/10

Overview

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

May 29, 1940

Runtime

11 minutes

Rating

6.0/10(3 votes)

Status

Released

Genres

Documentary

Cast

Content Source

Data provided by The Movie Database (TMDB).