Hollywood: Style Center of the World

• Cast: Ann Morriss, Naomi Childers, George Lessey, May McAvoy, Adrian
• Duration: 11 minutes
• Genre: Documentary
• Rating: 5.5/10
• Release Date: 1940-05-29

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.