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Word: actor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles Frend, the director, has the good taste and intelligence to use the vast, barren Antarctic as his leading actor. His cameras record, by the thoughtful, subdued use of Technicolor, snow and ice in an amazing variety of hues, from green to an ominous grey. As the party moves painfully from the coastal ice wall to the great glacier, and then to the inland plateau, every change in terrain and sky is effectively caught...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/27/1949 | See Source »

Idler's Workshop group will give a one-actor entitled "The Faraway Princess" this afternoon in Agassiz Theater. The production gives Idler candidates a chance to show their talent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idler Picks Sartre's Play 'No Exit' For Fall Production; Cast Selected | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

...attraction for two independent sets of Cambridge High and Latin bobby-soxers was lead actor Ricardo Montalban. Suddenly discovering that Montalban was the one who sang "Baby It's Cold Outside" to Esther Williams in a recent MGM aquashow, the teenagers twice held up shooting with autograph battles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MGM Starts Shooting Crime Movie | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

Died. Fritz Leiber, 66, Chicago-born, longtime Shakespearean trouper, since 1935 a Hollywood character actor (A Tale of Two Cities, The Life of Louis Pasteur) ; of a heart ailment; in Santa Monica, Calif. In a long career (beginning in 1905) of cross-country barnstorming as actor-producer, Leiber became one of Shakespeare's chief interpreters (everything from Romeo to Lear) for two generations of smalltown Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Scenes to be filmed today show lead actor Ricardo Montalban--the assistant district attorney--arriving in Harvard Square and asking students at Lehman and University Halls for the location of the Department. The students mistakenly send him to the Law School; Legal Medicine is a department of the Medical School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MGM Shoots Crime Movie in Yard Today | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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