Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...husband Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, who filed suit for custody of their nine-year-old son Lance. He charged her with neglecting to send Lance to school, allowing his teeth to decay, using "coarse and vulgar language" when he stayed with her and his stepfather, Cinemactor Gary Grant. The Count also charged that Lance had been encouraged to write coded notes to his mother, exhibited a decoded sample: "To hell with my father. I would like it if he died...
...Island's powerless Queen, why her subjects act that way, he is told: "She appeals to their emotions." Mr. Hall's fiancee, Grandmother explains, has been brought back to save the Cobra Islanders from race suicide. In due time she does-then promptly deserts them, with Cinemactor Hall...
Major James Stewart, tall, gangling cinemactor, whose commercial pilot's rating made him an Air Forces natural once he put on enough weight to meet Army standards, received the Distinguished Flying Cross-for his leadership in the Feb. 20 raid on aircraft factories at Brunswick (20 U.S. planes lost). Previous decorations: the Air Medal and Oak Leaf Cluster. As an Eighth Air Force squadron commander, he was the pilot-leader of 20-odd B-24 bombers on eleven missions over Germany, is now operations officer for his station's 50 to too Liberators...
...Most potable offering was Knickerbocker Holiday (United Artists), a cine-version of the 1938 Broadway hit which delved deep into Manhattan's Dutch past in order to be thumpingly arch (in Gilbert & Sullivan style) about dictators, democracy, the masses, freedom of the press and young love. Cinemactor Charles Coburn plays Walter Huston's old part as a period dictator-Peter Stuyvesant. Nelson Eddy is the singing editor whom Stuyvesant jails for his opinions and to get his girl. The girl: Constance Dowling who, besides singing likably enough, has the high surface gloss and hardness of a Dutch tile...
...Hitler Gang (Paramount) is a triumph of cinemakeup. With uncanny realism it recreates the physical appear ance of the Nazi bigwigs in a fascinating collection of talking waxworks. Paramount hunted high & low for Nazi doubles. The Hitler was easy. Cinemactor Robert Watson has already scared little children in that role in four pictures (The Devil with Hitler, Hitler, Dead or Alive, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Nazi Nuisance). He practiced his earnest performance so strenuously that he wore his larynx to a frazzle. One night the neigh bors, hearing his hysterical yawpings against Jews, came over...