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Word: actor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amos 'n' Andy's only cast change will be a new actor to play Gabby, the lawyer; James Baskett, last year's Gabby, died in July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Comes September | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

That was the story the arresting officers told popeyed reporters when they hauled the quartet to the Los Angeles county jail. A star of the first magnitude and an idol of organized bobby-soxers who call themselves the "Bob Mitchum Droolettes," the 31-year-old actor talked his head off in a mixture of remorse and forced humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Crisis in Hollywood | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...When you put your own money in a picture," observed Actor-Producer Dick Powell, "you discover that you eventually run out of money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 30, 1948 | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...Actor Rex ("Sexy Rexy") Harrison went to court to get a reduction in the $24,000-a-year alimony he was paying next-to-latest wife Noel; but Noel appealed, with a protest of her own: he was $28,000 behind in payments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Ruffles & Flourishes | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

Griffith tried writing for pictures, but the Edison Co. rejected his scenarios. When (in 1907) they hired him as an actor, to wrestle with a stuffed eagle in an old-fashioned cliffhanger, he attached himself to the movies and never, voluntarily, left them again. But until his third contract as a director with Biograph, his pride would not permit him to sign himself David Griffith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Last Dissolve | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

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