Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Alexander Carr, 68, stage and film actor, onetime Louisville street singer who won fame & a fleeting fortune as the irascible Mawruss Perlmutter in stage versions of Montague Glass's adventures of Partners Potash & Perlmutter; in Hollywood...
...whatever name it's labeled, the picture is pretty funny. The rake (Rex Harrison) is an amiable, Noel Cowardish sort of cad whose inability to take anything very seriously causes no end of trouble to himself, his employers, his family, his chums and his ladyfriends. As played by Actor Harrison and manipulated by writers-directors-producers Frank Launder and Sydney Gilliat (one of Mr. Rank's brighter young production teams), the rake's fast, downhill progress is topnotch fun with a pleasant British accent. The fun holds up, and so does the picture, until all the actors...
French movies, like U.S. movies, have their own highly stylized view of life. But the French, with their sharper attention to the way human beings normally behave, often manage to make their film conventions look lifelike. The real pleasure in this picture comes from watching Actor Raimu's very human vacillation between shame and pride in his bastard grandson...
Freddie Bartholomew, willowy ex-child-actor, now 22 and a married man, whistled like mad for an hour along a busy Manhattan street, finally gave up. A $50 reward for the return of Mitsou, his lost red chow, brought his pet back next...
...Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, ex-light-heavyweight champion turned actor, paid $10 in Chicago for speeding, but he felt put upon. "Everything was going O.K. until the cop found out who I was," he complained. "Then he took advantage of my stupidity...