Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along toward dawn one morning last week, Screen Actor Humphrey Bogart was sitting, in person, in Manhattan's not quite haut monde saloon, the Stork Club. It was the hour when it is virtually impossible to decide whether a rumba band goes bonkle bonkle tonk, or tonkle tonkle bonk; when waiters' arches ache, and blondes brush the hair out of their eyes in a queenly way. Bogart, who was sipping happily on a drink, decided to send out for two 22-lb. stuffed pandas...
Bass Fiddler Lee Norman, a member of Petrillo's union, was no actor. But five months ago, when he began to act as master of ceremonies as well as fiddle at Harlem's Regent Theater, the vaudeville union socked him $50 for a card. Fiddler Norman also paid, but Petrillo called out the orchestra and closed the act. Said Petrillo: "I am being mercenary . . . We are going to get back that...
Ever since, there has been war between Petrillo and A.G.V.A.'s parent body, the A.F.L. Associated Actors & Artistes of America, whose affiliates cover every entertainment field from circuses to grand opera. Petrillo was accused of signing up any actor who played so much as a musical comb. But he called it raiding when the "Four A" tried to enroll musicians who,. according to Petrillo, only stepped into the spotlight or said two words like,"Hello, hello." Many entertainers solved matters by belonging to both unions...
Michel: Monsieur Davis, I am not one of the crowd that listens to your words with religious fervor. And I want you to know, my dear Monsieur Davis, that I am not impressed with the antics of a decadent actor. Do you follow me well...
Once More, My Darling (Neptune Productions; Universal-International), produced by Joan Harrison and directed by Robert Montgomery-the team which made Ride the Pink Horse-is a fluffy comedy in which the fluff often gets in the way of the fun. As a young lawyer turned actor turned investigator for the U.S. Army, Montgomery is assigned the job of solving the disappearance of some famous jewels. To get at the jewels, he has to pretend to marry a man-eating debutante (Ann Blyth) who, without any pretense at all, is determined to marry...