Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Larry Semon, 39, funny cinemactor; of double pneumonia; in Victorville, Calif. Last March he went bankrupt with liabilities of nearly...
Excess Baggage. Among cinemaddicts there is a tendency to confuse their aversion to a character with their critical judgment of the actor's exposition. Particularly is this true in the case of William Haines. This cinemactor invariably plays the obnoxious, precocious whiffet who upsets plans, causes heartaches by his wilfulness. In this piece he is the smartaleck vaudevillager whose wife becomes a famed cinemactress while he is left in comparative obscurity. He wins her back from a sleek cinemactor (Ricardo Cortez) after slap-stickery and problem-solving...
Mimographer Shaw is a cinemactor, yet no cinemactor, no cinemactress has so ably combined appearance with utterance as have Jolson, Benchley, Shaw. Jolson, of course, is the lone member of the trio who has gone to any film length and observers noted that neither of his two operas (The Jazz Singer, The. Singing Fool) has been all-talk. Both have been all-sound. If Jolson, whose singing can lift a drooping piece, has not been permitted to do an all-talk piece, it is obvious that a lesser player, unable to break into song, must falter when the piece itself...
...producer is able to dominate Hollywood, are the studios of the mighty UFA (Universum Film Aktiengesellschaft), chief among European cinema companies. Here were filmed such popular and artistic successes as Variety, The Last Laugh, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. And from Neubabelsberg, last week, there journeyed many a cinemactor, many a director, to the Berlin premiere of UFA's latest production, The Homecoming...
...cameras use brighter lights, need glass partitions or windows to prevent recording the clicking of the machines, boast much more involved paraphernalia than ordinary cinemachines. Greater conveniences exist in Hollywood, yet many a cinemactor has blanched before his first "talkie" ordeal. Difficult therefore was the role of the polyglot actors in Paris. And difficult also the job of the cameramen stumbling over and struggling with old rose-covered chairs and large horseshoe table...