Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Jon Hall and body arrived in Hollywood, many skeptics said that the more fact that he was an athletic-looking fellow and very handsome, did not necessarily imply that he would make a good actor. These skeptics were answered by the realists who said that the more fact that he might not be a good actor did not not necessarily imply that he would be a failure in Hollywood...
Errol Flynn, a yacht, and a girl again made news. Nora Eddington, 19, recently an aircraft worker, was cruising with him off Acapulco, Mexico. Word got around that they were married. Actor Errol denied it; so did Nora. Her mother, who works in a Los Angeles bakery, told reporters that Nora had said "she didn't know whether she loved him for himself, or whether she just was in love with his glamor. So I kissed her good-by and I haven't heard from her since...
...Does an actor earn his pay if he has not memorized his part? When The Petrified Forest was revived last month in Cleveland, Eddie Dowling (Shadow and Substance, The Time of Your Life) played the leading role. For four nights keen-eyed playgoers caught the actor nonchalantly reading his lines from manuscript...
Though for an actor to read his lines is almost unheard of, Equity has no specific rule forbidding it; it can only penalize unethical behavior. But Equity chose to treat the matter as a salary dispute and last week sent it to the American Arbitration Association...
...Cabin in the Cotton, Bette Davis tuned in on the radio, heard Dodd preach a sermon. Dodd's favorite picture was It Happened One Night, in which he appeared but did not utter a word. In the film Claudette Colbert bolted a big lawn wedding just as Actor Dodd was about to start reading the service...