Word: cansino
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Eduardo saw that she sat at table with such cinema bigshots as Winfield Sheehan (then head of Fox), Sol Wurtzel, et al.-but only for a respectable minimum of time. This caution earned him the jeering nickname "Mama Cansino." But his tantalizing strictness worked...
Hollywood studios spare no lacquer in slicking up new, glamorizable names for their young hopefuls (e.g., Margarita Cansino to Rita Hayworth, Melvyn Hesselberg to Melvyn Douglas, Frances Gumm to Judy Garland). Recently Cinecolumnist John Chapman reported a Hollywood moniker to end all Hollywood monikers...