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Word: cinemactor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Milestones about eminent beasts are always separated from human Milestones by what printers call a hair line, after the end of the human list. The death of Blue Boy, star hog cinemactor of State Fair, was thus reported, as were the deaths of Rin Tin Tin, Balto, Khartoum the elephant, Psyche the laboratory monkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 12, 1934 | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...quavers. Now almost as popular as Vallee in the U. S. and Eng land, Crosby is much more popular else where, partly because his singing has ceased to be affected, partly because he is the only U. S. crooner sufficiently present able and mentally alert to be a successful cinemactor. He plays golf in the 703, wants to write short stories, is incorporated under his real name, Harry Lillis Crosby. His acting shoes contain one and a half-inch "lifts." His great-great-grandfather was one of John Jacob Astors sea captains. His wife, onetime Cinemactress Dixie Lee, calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lowell v. Block Booking | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...Cinemactor Tracy made this picture before going to Mexico City where he made news resulting in the cancellation of his contract by MGM. To TIME'S version of the affair (TIME, Dec. 4), Mr. Tracy telegraphed a correction as follows: "YOUR STORY ON MEXICO INCIDENT INACCURATE AND UNTRUE STOP MY REPUTATION HAS BEEN DAMAGED BY A FALSE CHARGE IN YOUR PUBLICATION STOP PUBLIC HAD BEEN GIVEN TRUE AND CORRECTED VERSION AND NOW YOUR LIBELOUS STORY OVERSHADOWS ALL PREVIOUS ONES STOP I REFER YOU TO LOS ANGELES TIMES OF DEC. 3 WHICH CLIMAXES ALL VERSIONS AND GIVES TRUE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 25, 1933 | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

Died. Hazel G. Chancy, 46, widow of Cinemactor Lon Chancy; after long illness; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 13, 1933 | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

Divorced. Adolphe Menjou, cinemactor ; by his third wife, Kathryn Carver Menjou, cinemactress; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty (fits of rage, profanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 28, 1933 | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

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