Hollywood: Style Center of the World [342221] Released: 1940-05-29 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 11 mins Popularity: 0.5782 Vote Average: 5.5 Vote Count: 2 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. Cast [46] Ann MorrissMary Naomi ChildersMary's Mother George LesseyMary's Father May McAvoySaleslady AdrianSelf Lew AyresSelf Lionel BarrymoreSelf Wallace BeerySelf Bruce CabotSelf Claudette ColbertSelf Joan CrawfordSelf Nelson EddySelf Clark GableSelf Greta GarboSelf Judy GarlandSelf Fay HoldenSelf Marsha HuntSelf Hedy LamarrSelf Vivien LeighSelf Myrna LoySelf Jeanette MacDonaldSelf Fredric MarchSelf Chico MarxSelf Groucho MarxSelf Harpo MarxSelf Ilona MasseySelf Frank MorganSelf Maureen O'SullivanSelf Laurence OlivierSelf Cecilia ParkerSelf Eleanor PowellSelf William PowellSelf Mickey RooneySelf Rosalind RussellSelf Ann RutherfordSelf Norma ShearerSelf Ann SothernSelf James StewartSelf Lewis StoneSelf Robert TaylorSelf Spencer TracySelf Johnny WeissmüllerSelf Robert YoungSelf Frank WhitbeckNarrator Greer GarsonSelf Margaret SullivanSelf Trailers