Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women reporters started firing questions: Which seems more real to you, the life you left or the one you're living in now? Which do you like better, being a director or an actor? Do you think the war has changed you? How did the other soldiers react to fighting alongside Clark Gable...
...TIME, Oct. 26, et seq.). Shirley Evans Hassau, long-limbed, curly-locked wife of a singer and mother of a three-year-old girl, charged that Flynn was the baby's father, sued him for $1,750-a-month support, $17,000 for hospital and legal expenses. The actor promised to "fight . . . to the bitter end before I'll make any payoff to avoid unpleasant publicity...
John Adams' opinion of George Washington, expressed in a private letter sold at a Manhattan auction last week, was that "if he was not the greatest President he was the best Actor of Presidency we have ever had." On another contemporary: "The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that; i.e. all the glory of it." The letter, among the family papers of Philadelphia's late Alexander Biddle, went for $575 to an undisclosed buyer...
U.S.O. hit on a solution: a one-man U.S. gag factory established in London to turn out material for touring entertainers. The man chosen was serious, curly-haired, stocky Hal Block-who resembles Actor Edward G. Robinson. A University of Chicago graduate (1934), he was a scriptwriter for Burns & Allen and coauthor of Olsen & Johnson's Sons o' Fun. U.S.O. installed Block at BBC, which pays him a fraction of his previous earnings...
Humphrey Bogart is the only well-known actor in the picture. To say that he is as good as the rest of the cast is high praise. Even the extras, for once, look like soldiers. Reason: they are soldiers who were training at Camp Young, Calif., near which the picture was made. Other members of the cast notable for their light, incisive realism are Kurt Krueger as the cold Nazi ace, Rex Ingram as the dignified Sudanese, John Wengraf as a treacherous Nazi major, Richard Nugent as a British doctor, Carl Harbord as an English ex-typesetter who likes poetry...