Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town), ex-Signal Corps colonel who bossed the making of such outstanding wartime documentaries as San Pietro, has lost none of his civilian cunning at whipping up top-drawer entertainment. He is still one of Hollywood's most talented moviemakers. Actor James Stewart, who worked his way up without ballyhoo from buck private to Air Forces colonel (and bomber-wing commander), has also boosted his rank as an actor. Having put aside his aggressively boyish, aw-shucks screen mannerisms, Stewart's first postwar performance is certain to be eyed respectfully...
...Fair McNulty. She married Writer John McNulty in 1945, and they were listed in the 1946 edition. McNulty spent part of the year working on a book about a bar on Manhattan's Third Avenue, a street seldom mentioned in the Register. ¶ Mrs. Eleanor Labrot, who married Actor Brian Aherne last January. ¶Socialite publisher Stuart Scheftel who married Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald last September. Listed under "Dilatory Domiciles," the Register's never-never classification reserved for those who are not settled at a permanent address, were: ¶Socialite theatrical producer Horace Schmidlapp, who married lush Cinestar Carole...
William Shakespeare had had better weeks. In Stratford-on-Avon, a fire in the town hall destroyed the famed Gainsborough painting of the Bard's bust being leaned on by Actor David Garrick. In Chicago, Music Boss James Caesar Petrillo declared that Maurice Evans' Hamlet with incidental music was not a drama but a musical (and thus the incidental musicians got a pay boost...
...confused with U.S. Actor José Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac...
...actress, author of boudoir best-sellers (Past Imperfect, In Bed We Cry); and Dr. Norton S. Brown, 42, her personal physician; she for the third time, he for the second; in Las Vegas, Nev., three days after Author Chase won a divorce from second husband William Murray. First husband: Actor Louis (The Magnificent Yankee) Calhern...