Hollywood: Style Center of the World (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.

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	Ann Morriss	As: Mary
	Naomi Childers	As: Mary's Mother
	George Lessey	As: Mary's Father
	May McAvoy	As: Saleslady
	Adrian	As: Self

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Genres: Documentary

Language: English

Release Date: 29 May 1940

Country: US

Runtime: 11m

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Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Cast

	Ann Morriss	Mary
	Naomi Childers	Mary's Mother
	George Lessey	Mary's Father
	May McAvoy	Saleslady
	Adrian	Self
	Lew Ayres	Self
	Lionel Barrymore	Self
	Wallace Beery	Self
	Bruce Cabot	Self
	Claudette Colbert	Self
	Joan Crawford	Self
	Nelson Eddy	Self
	Clark Gable	Self
	Greta Garbo	Self
	Judy Garland	Self
	Fay Holden	Self
	Marsha Hunt	Self
	Hedy Lamarr	Self
	Vivien Leigh	Self
	Myrna Loy	Self
	Jeanette MacDonald	Self
	Fredric March	Self
	Chico Marx	Self
	Groucho Marx	Self
	Harpo Marx	Self
	Ilona Massey	Self
	Frank Morgan	Self
	Maureen O'Sullivan	Self
	Laurence Olivier	Self
	Cecilia Parker	Self
	Eleanor Powell	Self
	William Powell	Self
	Mickey Rooney	Self
	Rosalind Russell	Self
	Ann Rutherford	Self
	Norma Shearer	Self
	Ann Sothern	Self
	James Stewart	Self
	Lewis Stone	Self
	Robert Taylor	Self
	Spencer Tracy	Self
	Johnny Weissmüller	Self
	Robert Young	Self
	Frank Whitbeck	Narrator
	Greer Garson	Self
	Margaret Sullivan	Self (archive footage)