Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...casting a musical, producers usually have a trouble, of either getting an actor who can't sing, or a singer who can't act. The singing seems to have won out, for both Irene Manning and Bill Thompson are ill at ease when not singing and find their outlet in excessive histrionics...
...Auto workers voted for strikes by 6-to-1 at General Motors and 8-to-1 at (Chrysler in elections required by the Smith-Connally Act...
...other nations, while willing to sign the F.A.O. constitution, were unable to come to a clear agreement on F.A.O.'s rightful function. Should it have power to act in streamlining the world's distribution of food? Or should it be solely an advisory body...
...Intended as a colorful has-been, Frankie merely seems like something that never was. And as a story, Beggars is no Better. The flowering of romance between Frankie and the supper club's leg-some cigaret girl (Dorothy Comingore) is banal and forced. When Frankie tries to act tough, Playwright Reeves lets comedy seep into scenes that should be hard-hitting theater, and they wind up as nothing. The best things about Beggars are its amusing glimpses of nightclub office management and Jo Mielziner's stunning office...
Even if the U.S. Treasury plugs the capital-gains tax hole (and it may take an act of Congress), the harm will have been done-to the majors. The independents have learned how to make more money alone, by avoiding the tremendous overhead of big studio plants and top-heavy platoons of executives. Example: Actor James Cagney and his brother Bill have made as much on two independent pictures, even by paying corporation income taxes, as they made on six pictures at Warner Bros...