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Word: actor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lust for the fiancee (Eva Von Berne) of his friend. In an effort to live up to his reputation as the greatest lover in Hollywood, John Gilbert makes his eyes pop out and his chest heave in a way that little furthers his ambition to be also its greatest actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Married. Edna Best, 28, English actress, and Herbert Marshall, 38, English actor, co-stars of Frederick Lonsdale's The High Road, current Broadway comedy; in Jersey City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Generously the great Actor-Manager Sacha Guitry provided for his choosey feminine patrons two Lindberghs-Voila! Also he entitled his piece Charles Lindbergh-A Heroic Melodrama. Finally, with the cunning of a master dramatist, he supplied love interest-without offending that large section of French womanhood to whom Le Colonel is attractive chiefly as a symbol of masculine chastity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Two Lindberghs | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...cast) thirst in a desert composed obviously of flour, shavings, and papier-mâché; their thirst, however, is real, their momentary, flaring hatreds, their gestures toward heroism, renunciation, their final acceptance of themselves, all these are real, surviving buoyantly the inadequacies of mechanics. Director Joe May, Actor Lars Hanson, maintain the fact, recently put to question by shoddy productions, that Hollywood may have bought most of the talent of the UFA company but has not yet bought all the brains. Dita Parlo 13 the girl to whom the soldiers return; she has both brains and beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...Actor John Barrymore $150,000, to Director Ernst Lubitsch $125,000 by United Artists for work on King of the Mountains budgeted at $1,100,000; to Richard Barthelmess, a raise from $5,500 to $8,500 a week; to Fannie Brice, $7,500 a week for three weeks to appear in Publix theatres; to King Alfonso (Spain), an unnamed sum for talking into Fox Movietone sound-camera; to one Jack Felstein, called Jack Gordon, not more than three years for grabbing pocketbooks from matrons at cinematinees in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Variations Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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