Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then there is Broadway Actor Ralph Bellamy soberly reading Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat (Victor, 4 sides), and Orson Welles smacking and grumbling solemn words from Pericles to Lincoln (No Man Is an Island; Decca, 10 sides). Less noisy: A Walk in the Sun (Disc, 6 sides), a chronicle ballad of the famed Texas 36th Division, sung by Composer Earl Robinson. Strictly for their fans is the patter of Jimmy Durante (Decca, 8 sides) and Bob Hope (Capitol, 8 sides...
Married. John Huston, 40, Hollywood (and U.S. Army) film writer-producer (The Maltese Falcon, Let There Be Light), son of Actor Walter Huston; and Cinemactress Evelyn Keyes, 26; both for the third time; in Las Vegas...
...Sailor Paul King, prewar light operatic baritone, had almost wrecked his voice in the Carolines, where it was his job to holler at incoming ships. He was studying singing again. Ex-Sailor James Truex, son of Actor Ernest Truex, was learning to fence. Ex-G.I. Leon Janney, once-famed child cinemactor, was studying makeup...
Most remarkable feature of Till the End of Time: the difficult neuroses-threatened male lead, which might well have frightened a veteran actor, was thrust on a blond, dark-browed, sensationally handsome young man whose entire previous acting experience consisted of one movie bit part. Guy Madison, 24, ex-telephone lineman, was allowed a seven-day leave from the Navy in 1944 to speak a few lines in a David O. Selznick production. The volume of ecstatic bobby-sox fan mail (some 62,000 letters, many addressed simply to The Cute Sailor in Since You Went Away) was staggering...
Before he even took a screen test, Smoky was signed to a seven-year acting contract at a beginning salary of $300 a week. Actor MacMurray's gross earnings for the year 1944, reported fortnight ago by the U.S. Treasury...