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Word: actor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the Theatre Guild, a happy event for both. She is a small brunette of perfect symmetry and French antecedents. New York first discovered her in A Kiss in a Taxi in 1925. Since then she has played in The Barker (in which she met Actor Norman Foster, whom she married), The Pearl of Great Price, The Mulberry Bush, The Ghost Train, Fast Life, and Tin Pan Alley. She has gifts which the Guild undoubtedly will magnify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Barnett took her Indian to Holly-wood and they moved into a $50,000 home, as fine as any movie actor's. They lived happily enough, except that the heat some-times bothered the old man and he occasionally pined for his Henryetta neighbors. His wife gave him petty cash to spend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: An Indian and His Oil | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Married. Barbara Bennett, dancer & actress, daughter of Actor Richard Bennett ; and Morton Downey, tenor; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 11, 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

George Bancroft's leading role in "The Wolf of Well Street" not only marks his first appearance in an "all talking" but also is made significant by a distinct advance in his ability as an actor. This film showing the back stage actions of the bears and bulls of the stock market would be little more than worthless without his stellar work assisted by Baclanova...

Author: By B. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...have his chance in vaudeville. Other talkies have had better dialog than Betty Compson's repetitive "Ah, Jerry," and Barthelmess's "All right, baby." Best shot: close-up of convicts at attention. Like many a handsome, athletic young man who has the air of being an actor in spite of himself, Richard Barthelmess has been in the show business most of his life. His mother, Caroline Harris, played in Biograph pictures at the old Fort Lee (N. J.) studios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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