(Hollywood: Style Center of the World)

Content: 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.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

11 minutes

Year:

1940

Directors:

Oliver Garver

Production companies:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Actors:

Mary

Mary's Mother

Mary's Father

Saleslady

Self

Crews:

Director

Music

Editor

Director of Photography