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Word: actor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago judge, Miller entered radio as a soap-opera actor soon after his graduation from Knox College, Galesburg, 111. in 1938, and after three years in the World War II Navy, became program director at Chicago's WIND, soon switched to disk jockeying and became an immediate success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: What Makes Howard Spin | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...only planned as an eleven-minute film, but seldom has a moviemaker run into a more temperamental star. The actor was a bobcat that obviously had no intention of doing what he was told. He broke out of his cage, fled up a tree, fought so violently when lassoed that he broke his neck and died. Reported the frustrated moviemaker to his employer, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc.: "I am now without a cat to work with. I very much regret having to report so much trouble, but it seems to go with this kind of work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Help on Celluloid | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

Divorced. Anthony Franciosa, 28, mercurial Broadway actor (A Hatful of Rain) and boyfriend of Shelley Winters, 32, tough blonde actress of screen (A Place in the Sun) and stage (A Hatful of Rain); by Beatrice Bakalyar Papaleo, after nearly five years of marriage, no children; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 29, 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...Strange One. Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man) about a Southern military academy makes a slick, sadistic thriller- a slashing good cinema debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 29, 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

Fear Strikes Out. Psychiatry has a red-hot inning in this film biography of Red Sox Outfielder Jim Piersall, and 25-year-old Actor Anthony Perkins scores in the title role (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 29, 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

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