Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Leo Bulgakov, 59, Russian-born actor-producer and onetime member of the famed Moscow Art Theater; of coronary thrombosis; in Binghamton, N.Y. Bulgakov left Russia for a U.S. tour in 1923, staged highly acclaimed Broadway and Yiddish Theater adaptations of The Cherry Orchard and The Lower Depths, never went back to Moscow...
...year-old film to the U.S. is mercenary: the box-office pull of Deborah Kerr and of James Mason, who, at this tender stage of his career, seems never to have heard of sadism. The only possible reason for seeing it is the work of Robert Newton, an excellent actor who can put amazing variety and intensity of meaning into the oft-repeated dissyllable...
...Dearest Mommie." But she was recklessly in love again-this time with lean, British-born Actor Rex Harrison, a man Hollywood had nicknamed "Sexy Rexy." One night last week, after Harrison had dined with her at her big Pacific Palisades house, Frances Ridste gulped a few fast highballs and wrote a note to her "Dearest Mommie." She scribbled: "Goodbye, my angel. Pray for me." She signed it, "Your Baby." Then she took a lethal handful of sleeping pills, sank to the bathroom floor, and died...
...learning the business thoroughly. Then he turned it over to his executives (he could always quiz and harry them by telephone) and went to Hollywood. Since boyhood, fascinated by the movies, he had jotted down ideas for scripts in a notebook. He had even met and cultivated a movie actor named Ralph Graves. In Hollywood, his uncle, Rupert Hughes-a prosperous fictioneer and biographer-had been writing and directing pictures. Howard hung around the sets, asked questions...
Hollywood laughed when it heard that this young upstart wanted to make pictures himself. His actor friend, Graves, had a terrific idea for a script-about a Bowery bruiser who adopts a baby. Hughes was impressed, laid out $50,000. This picture, Swell Hogan, was such an arrant turkey that it was never released. The wiseacres laughed louder...