Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)

Run Time: 0h11m | Release: 29 May 1940

Production Countries: United States of America

5.5 / 102 Vote Count

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.