Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That the models might be as accurate as humanly possible, a corps of assistants have been studying books, maps and documents for four years. Sculptor Franklin is proud of the fact that his Nathan Hale is much fatter than the famed statue by Daniel Chester French, posed for by Cinemactor Francis Xavier Bushman...
Baritone Lawrence Mervil Tibbett coined commercial reward for having turned cinemactor, signed a contract to broadcast 13 Monday evenings for Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. His fee: $4,000 a week, beginning...
...theatre; Prince Kemaleddine Hussein of Egypt, explorer and big game hunter, in the American Hospital, Cairo, following amputation of a leg; Morris Gest, theatrical producer, in Jamesburg, N. J., of a nervous collapse partially induced by grief over the death of his father-in-law, David Belasco; Cinemactor Tom Mix in Hollywood, of peritonitis following operation upon a ruptured appendix; Premier Ismet Pasha of Turkey, in Istanbul, of injuries suffered in an automobile crash ; Yale Footballer Albie Booth, in New Haven, of pleurisy; William Reynolds, 18, son of Richard Samuel Reynolds, onetime tobacco tycoon, in Great Neck...
...parts arduously expanded. In Min & Bill, she was proprietress of a low-grade boarding house. Wallace Beery was her star boarder. Largely slapstick comedy, the picture included a six-minute fight between Dressier and Beery in which Cinemactress Dressier threw things, among them a pottie, at Cinemactor Beery. Cinemactress Dressier enjoyed making the fight scenes. When she and Beery were too tired to go on, she rested in a portable bungalow dressing room which she got for Christmas from Marion Davies...
First suggested at a dinner given in 1927 by Louis B. Mayer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to Director Fred Niblo, Cinemactor Conrad Nagel and Fred Beetson, the Academy now has 700 members-writers, actors, technicians, production executives, directors. Its main concern is the welfare of the cinema industry. Dissenters regard it as a company union since producers used it two years ago as a weapon to defeat Equity's attempt to organize cinemactors. Annually, each of the five Academy branches selects five nominees in its own branch for an award of merit. The five highest nominations are then submitted...