Word: actorisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...member of the cast has a good reason for killing him and because you have read the title. This part of the picture is nicely constructed and told with some good shots of a Hollywood studio?the only ones that have come along for quite a while. When the actor is found dead on Stage Ten you stay to find out who killed him? his wife, his director, the nightwatchman's daughter, or her brother, or the nightwatchman, or the fellow who is in love with her. You guess all the time that the director...
Died. Margaret Lawrence, 39, famed comédienne, Tea for Three, Secrets, Lawful Larceny; by shooting; in her Manhattan penthouse apartment. In a bottle-strewn bedroom, a bullet in her breast, she was found by the side of her lover, Actor Louis Bennison, also shot. Police thought Bennison killed both. Miss Lawrence, who had been suspended by Actors' Equity Association for "walking out" of Edgar Selwyn's Possession, and recently reinstated, was twice married (Publisher Orson Munn, divorced; Actor Wallace Eddinger, deceased). She had two daughters, Elizabeth Munn, 14, Louisine Munn...
...story is in the main a common one. The young struggling actor, born in the middle west, struggles up from a position of practical starvation to the top rung in the movie world. Throughout the whole narration one is struck with the romance of his life. Hart surely saw life through colored glasses and lived it as he saw it. He has retained to the present time that same feeling that makes a small boy delight in the circus, and a great deal of the charm of the volume is due to this fact...
There is a careful avoidance of any attempt on Hart's part to show how he paddled his own canoe, and point a moral to the striving young actor, which is a relief in this type of work. To a large degree the story is a connected series of antidotes of life in the movies...
...Hollywood last week from Chicago arrived one Charles Loeb, German actor, rouged, dressed in checked pants, derby, tap-dance shoes. He travelled by express in a wooden box pointed at the ends so that he would not be stood on his head. His purpose: To "crash" the Pathe studios, play jack-in-the-box when the case was opened, dance, get a job. Result: Discovered in Culver City, Cal., he was held "on charges of conspiracy to defeat and evade the interstate commerce laws...