Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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United States does precisely that. With Cinemactor David Niven, now a lieutenant colonel in the British Army, acting as narrator, it shows first New York, which "isn't America," then traces U.S. history from the landing at Plymouth, through the Revolution, the Civil War, the settling of the West, winding up with a panorama of the current U.S. scene. Typical of the tone that makes United States so successful is the commentary on the Revolution: "The men of Washington's Army were no longer British subjects resisting the armed forces of their king. They were Americans, fighting...
...christened Harry Lillis Crosby last week won Hollywood's Oscar for the best cinemactor of the year (see PEOPLE). But it had just become apparent that he could boast of a far rarer distinction: his voice had been heard by more people than any other voice in history...
Madeleine Carroll, who gave up Hollywood glamor in 1942-at the same time that her husband, ex-Cinemactor Stirling Hayden, joined the Marines-and has served overseas with a Red Cross nursing unit, decided to quit the screen for keeps. She explained that she would continue with the Red Cross until after the war, then planned to care for the 200 homeless children she has sheltered at her home outside Paris. British-born, beauteous Madeleine vowed that it "is to them and them alone that I will devote myself," added that she had always been "at heart more French than...
Barbara Mutton, who has been playing on-again-off-again-Finnegan with her husband, Cinemactor Gary Grant, delivered a weighty new decision: "After much thought . . . we can be happier living apart...
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker gave some histrionic advice to Cinemactor Fred MacMurray, who will play the lead in Captain Eddie, a Hollywood version of Rickenbacker's life: "When you come to the love scenes, don't be too flamboyant, but be plenty persistent-because I was surely that...