Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...board of what the tickets described as "the Dancing and Eating Boat," but the games, said the United Press, were sadly crooked. A Johanna Smith soliloquy, delivered aboard her at 3 a. m. by Louis Wolheim, famed as hard-boiled "Captain Flagg" in What Price Glory? and now a cinemactor, was reported as follows: "The roulette is bad, the poker, twenty-one and chuck-a-lick worse, but the prize albatross these guys hang around a neck is at the craps table. A game of chance...
...horse-riding cinemactor, one Will Morrissey, comedian, gibed: "Your horse Tony has a great future in the talkies. The horse can at least snort. But what can you do?" Tom Mix struck the giber on the jaw, knocked him down...
Married. Joan Burroughs, daughter of Author Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan of the Apes); to James Pierce, cinemactor of Tarzan, chosen for the part by Joan Burroughs; in Los Angeles...
...Lion and the Mouse. "Father, I love her" and "Now I must act" fell on the ears of the audience at the Vitaphone's latest offering. They were uttered boldly and flatly by a weak-chinned young cinemactor named William Collier Jr. He played the son of Wall Street's rich and cruel lion (Lionel Barrymore). The girl he loved (May McAvoy) was the daughter of an innocent judge that the lion had ruined financially. The throbbing drama, an old one, was arranged so that the end was happy. It was an unfortunate vehicle for the Vitaphone...
Fazil. Charles Farrell is a capable cinemactor, particularly in the role of an earnest young man. But here he is greased up like the late Rudolph Valentino and made to register Arabian passion under the erogenous name of Prince Fazil. The also warm Greta Nissen, as a Parisian blonde called Fabienne, spends many film feet in his arms and on his lips-be the place Paris or Venice or the desert sands. They get married, quarrel, make up, etc. And finally, DEATH-Prince Fazil, mortally wounded by bandits, takes off his poison ring and lovingly punctures the white finger...