Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Land Is Mine (RKO-Radio), Hollywood's 19th film about Nazi-occupied countries, is also one of the more ambitious. It has the added attractions of Charles Laughton, who is an actor's actor, and Maureen O'Hara's cameo beauty...
Under Managing Editor Canham's guidance the Monitor's austere crust is softening. The paper ignored Film Actor Errol Flynn's rape trial but did print the verdict briefly. When 489 people died in Boston's Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire, the Monitor refrained from running pictures, or horrifying descriptions of the victims' screams, but did give Page One display to the story and printed all victims' names. And the Monitor today, as it never did in World War I, covers war news straight. Mentioning casualties and cannon in its clean, unruffled prose, it realistically...
Died. Harry Baur, 62, famed French character actor; in Paris. Fisherman, soap salesman, fruit vendor, teacher, he took a face as mobile as a surrealist potato on to the stage in the late 1800s, was a bright star in the theater for more than 30 years, the French cinema's Laughton-Jannings for the past twelve...
Adopted. By Lucille le Sueur Fairbanks Tone Terry (Cinemactress Joan Crawford) and Actor-Husband Phillip: an eight-year-old boy, thereupon named Phillip Jr. The actress adopted a four-month-old girl in 1940, returned another adopted son at his mother's request...
...Talented Actor George Coulouris (Julius Caesar, Watch on the Rhine) plays Richard as if he were just a matter of feverish impatience and petty willfulness, ignores his sardonic mind, his serpentine guile, his high pride of villainy. Jerky and rapid of speech, Hunchback-of-Notre-Dame-like in movement, he exudes evil rather than expresses it. He is too unimpressive for a figure that has to carry the whole load of the play on his crooked back...