Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic ticket, was soundly trounced by bustling Republican Attorney General Earl Warren. Although there was hardly a crackpot candidate or crackpot issue in the campaign, it was still one of the nation's liveliest. Comely Actress Helen Gahagan, Democratic National Committeewoman, shouted herself hoarse for Olson. Gregarious Actor Leo Carrillo, descendant of California's first provisional Governor, added gags to humorless Earl Warren's meetings. Typical Carrillo quip: introducing Warren to "my cousins" in the audience...
...Herbert Merillat, late of Oxford University, public-relations officer on Guadalcanal, continued the history of the battle, which he is writing in Oxford-Marine-four-letter-word language. He would have been interested in some notes made by the Chicago Sun's John Graham Dowling, 29, son of Actor Eddie Dowling, during the three-day bombardment that preceded the correspondents' recent removal...
When Death, the prompter, as it must to all actors, called exit last week George M. Cohan did not have to wonder what his notices would be like: his career had been vividly reported to millions while he lived. Five months before death (of cancer) Cohan had seen a runoff of his own cinemapotheosis, Yankee Doodle Dandy (TIME, June 22), with James Cagney outdoodling the actor he portrayed. The picture turned the jauntiness and the flag-waving, the Cohan tunes and the Cohan tricks, into a nostalgic tintype of an era. No one typified that era more than Cohan himself...
...worried: on hand are two more whopping potential liabilities: $1,000,000 worth of Gentleman Jim and $1,000,000 of Edge of Darkness (Hollywood "wits" last week reported that the title of Gentleman Jim was to be changed to merely Jim-a report Warner Bros. denied.) The harried actor, who faces a preliminary hearing of both cases this week, quit work at his studio, announced he felt rather sick, headed wearily for home. Next day his furnace exploded, blew a plumber through the cellar door, blew up some $5,000 worth of Flynn diggings. And even escape into...
...MURDER-Helen McCoy- Morrow ($2). The actor who portrayed a dying man in a Manhattan revival of Sar-dou's Fedora turns out to be very dead indeed when the curtain goes down. Psychiatrist-detective Basil Willing, working on tenuous clues and a wide knowledge of abnormal psychology, finally snares a persistent and excellently hidden criminal in a trap that almost ends the doctor's own career. Credible stage atmosphere and an airtight plot...