Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First National-Warner Bros.). Of old-time Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks' achievements, perhaps the greatest was his Puckish, jaunty, devil-may-care role of Robin Hood (1922). Replacing Douglas Fairbanks in Robin's bounding buskins is as much of a he-man's job as pinchhitting for Babe Ruth. In the current cinema lithe, lanky Errol Flynn hits no home run. but scores a clean two-bagger standing up. Lacking Fairbanks' punch and ken. he has Robin's form and flair down pat. If prankish Actor Fairbanks was a man's Robin Hood, handsome, romantic...
...finished three months ago. Originally Producer Jed Harris was slated to produce it "after revisions by the author." "Revisions" caused an impasse, and suddenly Harris bowed himself out of the picture. Next came news that Austin Parker, former husband of Actress Miriam Hopkins, was doing the play, had offered Cinemactor Brian Aherne the lead...
...Joseph Losey. The terms: $1,000 advance royalty, production by October 15. Losey, 29, is the husband of Dressmaker-Author Elizabeth Hawes (Fashion Is Spinach), has been stage manager for Jed Harris and Gilbert Miller, director for the Federal Theatre Project. Mentioned hopefully for lead in The Fifth Column: Cinemactor Gary Cooper, who "would be ideal...
Divorced. Ellen Wilson McAdoo de Onate, 22, fourth daughter of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo and granddaughter of the late Woodrow Wilson; from Rafael Lopez de Onate, 41. Philippine-born cinemactor; in Los Angeles. Charge: nonsupport...
Since he parted company with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1935, sleek, downy Ramon Novarro, 39-year-old cinemactor who once threatened to become an opera singer, has appeared in only one minor picture. Last week he let it be known he had forsworn the cinema to study Hindu philosophy, had become converted to Yoga, was now anxious only to attain a state of complete mental & physical tranquillity. Said Yogiman Novarro; "I learned the breathing exercises of Yogi, and I thought deeply of the philosophies involved...