Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Ann Morriss Mary

Naomi Childers Mary's Mother

George Lessey Mary's Father

May McAvoy Saleslady

Adrian Self