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Word: actor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians look like fur-coated Americans, and the Soviet Union is pictured as a land of magnificent food and drink, as it probably was in the circles in which the Davieses moved. As Mrs. Davies, the picture has sweet-faced Ann Harding, and as Hero Joe Davies, tall, forceful Actor Walter Huston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Goes to Moscow | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...Actor. In Brooklyn, John Galunas, turned down by Hollywood as a player of criminal roles because he "wasn't the type," was arrested for burglary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 3, 1943 | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...Hawaii last winter, in charge of entertaining the troops, went Broadway's most high-brow actor, Captain Maurice (Hamlet, Macbeth) Evans. In Hawaii this spring he is offering the Army's most low-brow show, a bawdy, corny musical called Hey, Mac, that the dogfaces are eating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: As Broad As It's Long | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

Born. To Signal Corps Private Alan Ladd Jr., 29, peacetime cinema tough guy, and Actor's Agent Sue Carol (real name: Evelyn Lederer), 35: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Weight: 8 Ib. 110z Killed in Action. British Army Captain Glyn David Rhys-Williams, 21, grandson of Novelist Elinor (It) Glyn; in North Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 3, 1943 | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...original was a sob drama of a dipsomaniac actor whose crippled daughter gets him back in condition for the stage, only to have him turn up crocked the opening night. End: suicide. The scripters have rewritten the part of fit Wooley, and the first fifteen minutes of the show are superb. From then on it's all out on the tear ducts, with Lupino clomping around and being too, too brave about it all, followed about by the worst juvenile lead of the year, mouthing the worst love language of the year...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

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