Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later seasons Ureli Corelli Hill bankrupted himself in the California gold rush, returned to borrow the Philharmonic's sinking fund, in the process nearly sank the orchestra. At 70 he retired from music to take a flyer as a bit-part actor in legitimate drama. A disastrous venture in New Jersey real estate catapulted him back into Manhattan concert managing. In 1875 Ureli Corelli Hill took an overdose of morphine. Beside his body, police discovered a note. "Ha, ha!" it read, "I go, the sooner the better...
Producer Louis de Rochemont had the help of the Marine Corps as a whole, and, unexpectedly, of Col. William T. Clement, USMC, veteran of Bataan and a sterling actor. He has the film's most leatherneck and authentic line: "Blow the bastards out of the water! Commence firing...
...Herculean task of portraying Maugham's derelict hero, in his progressive states of degeneracy falls to Hollywood's ablest young character actor, George Sanders. Delicately he begins as the solid English bank-clerk husband, who suddenly is transformed into a callous wife-beating artist. And then Sanders has the picture to himself, for he storms through the following scenes with the biting venom of a freed tiger, trampling helter-skelter over lesser beings, tyrannizing those who are attracted to him, kicking away the happiness of those who happen to be in his way. Finally the human juggernaut comes to rest...
...working overtime, the Lunts manage to scrape off some Behrman rust. They also enliven the evening with a series of vaudeville acts. Actor Lunt dances, does magician's tricks, fakes tightrope walking. Actress Fontanne goes into a trance, does half a striptease. Two other characters indulge in a crap game. In view of all this, perhaps a decent script would be an intrusion...
...Hollywood Reporter recently announced: "Andy Lawlor is being 'congratulated' on his heart trouble, is in line for an important studio job." In the same issue appeared an advertisement for an actor named Lance Martel, with the caption: "Lance Martel; Exempt-Experienced-Expert; $200 a week till Hitler's beat...