1922 Cosmopolitan July 43 Beauty is the cheapest coinage in Hollywood. The rate of exchange is too high.

1926 A. Huxley Jesting Pilate ii. 198 What is this famous civilisation of the white man which Hollywood reveals?

1929 E. Wallace Red Aces i. 218 A high-class school at Brighton, where girls are taught to..use lipstick and adore the heroes of Hollywood.

1933 Punch 30 Aug. 225/1 An American producer says that if he had his way he could make Elstree into an English Hollywood.

1986 J. Gilbert Cycle of Outrage The onset of the Depression in 1929..worsened the tension between the defenders of public morals and Hollywood.

2009 R. L. Hilliard Hollywood speaks Out Introd. 1 Hollywood has entertained and Hollywood has bored... Hollywood has stimulated and Hollywood has fed us pap.

1923 W. L. George One of Guilty 145 That he should have been engaged in highway robbery felt very Hollywood.

1935 R. Macaulay Personal Pleasures 137 It is not..for mechanically recorded voices, however Hollywood, to mimic this universal terrestrial passion [sc. love].

1939 C. Morley Kitty Foyle 319 Those black and white yachting shoes..were definitely Hollywood.

1942 T. Rattigan Flare Path i. 23 Face the music? How beautifully Hollywood! What was your idea? To get Teddy alone and say ‘I love your wife’?

2006 C. Chandler Girl who walked Home Alone x. 252 Romanoff's. Very glamorous and very Hollywood. And the food was good.

1920 Collier's 4 Dec. 80/1 ‘I just give her a cup of strong black not another bite would she have.’ Cryptic, perhaps, to one..who has not studied Hollywoodese.

1957 Ess. in Crit. 7 209 One scarcely needs to pursue the poem through the Hollywoodese of ‘our hearts go round’.

2003 P. M. Nichols N.Y. Times Essent. Libr.: Children's Movies x. 31 In Edward Scissorhands..we at least have a core and ‘arc’ (Hollywoodese for beginning, middle, and end).

1927 Daily Express 4 May 4 The cottage is so picturesque and Hollywoodesque that..it is more like a ‘set’ than a real house.

2006 Biblical Interpr. 14 35 A Hollywoodesque visual spectacle, wherein ‘things become too real’.

1920 Photoplay Mag. July 93/1 You're almost the first Hollywoodian who has ever written to me for information.

1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 23 What frills, what flounces!..The cut was a Hollywoodian adaptation from the French.

1959 Encounter July 53/2 Some deep Hollywoodean reason.

1960 House & Garden July 36 There is nothing Hollywoodian about Miss Caron's decorative indulgences.

2001 S. Giovacchini Hollywood Modernism v. 165 Oftentimes, the kind of war stories many Hollywoodians brought back to the studios had less to do with heroism on the battlefront than with censored films, rejected scripts, and politically motivated dismissals.

2003 D. Roman Fragmented Identities (2007) iv. 68 Romanian Television had managed to create the best Hollywoodian escapist imaginary environment.

1928 Daily Express 4 May 10/2 Mr. Douglas Fairbanks..is meditating..a slap-up, original Hollywoodish sequel of his own devising.

1962 Listener 6 Sept. 342/2 Those brawny, masculine, sunburnt figures of my youth..were Hollywoodish figures.

2007 A. Ross Rest is Noise viii. 327 A splashy, souped up, self-confessedly Hollywoodish chord of victory—the sound of America on the march.

1925 Mixer & Server 15 June 37/1 Old landmarks..are, to use a Hollywoodism, ‘passing out of the picture’.

1950 John o' London's Weekly 7 July 419/1 The modern kind of road~house which might adopt a Spanish wear with self-conscious Hollywoodism.

1963 Sunday Express 24 Feb. 23/3 Nine Hours to Rama is a lamentable failure because it is permeated with Hollywoodisms.

2011 R. A. Swanson Rain & Darkness lxxiii. 409 Reagan's facile mundaneness and ready Hollywoodism were parts of his style.