Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uncertain Glory (Warner) indulges Warner Bros.' pet delusion that Errol Flynn may play the hero, but that he is even more appealing as a heel. This time Cinemactor Flynn is an Occupied-French murderer who is about to be guillotined when some opportune British bombs help him to escape. A dowdy Parisian plain-clothes man (Paul Lukas) recaptures him in a village where saboteurs have just blown up a bridge and the Gestapo is about to shoot 100 hostages in reprisal. Result: one of those ethical problems that bedevil Warner Bros.' pictures: Should the detective turn over...
Featured in last week's Jacobowsky and the Colonel was Hollywood's pretty Annabella, wife of Cinemactor Tyrone Power. The French cinemactress-who rose to fame in Director René Clair's Le Million -was making her Broadway debut. Critic Rascoe charged from the show to his typewriter, abruptly started off: "An incredibly talentless actress who calls herself Annabella made me so spiritually ill last night that you can stop, right now, if you want to. . . . In my whole life (I give you my word) I have never seen or heard an actress botch up good lines...
Loretta Young, gazelle-eyed, 31-year-old cinemactress, vacationing at Palm Springs, confided to the press that she expected her first in the fall. Ex-wife of Cinemactor Grant Withers, wife of Lieut. Colonel Thomas Lewis, peacetime radio advertising man, she has an adopted daughter Judy...
After Colgate toothpaste, St. Joseph aspirin, etc., nightclubs, numerous movies and marriage (to Cinemactor Jon Hall), she landed on Hope's Pepsodent show three years ago − just in time for World...
...flashbacks they tell Cinemactor Rains the story of their crimes, their sufferings, their escape. It makes for steamy jungle cinematography and theatrical but heartfelt political talk, which barely succeed in suggesting a fantastically heroic, patriotic allegory. Once the men are through talking, the Captain, in the film's best bit of acting, announces the French armistice. Then he secretly sets his course for England. The Fascists stage a mutiny and are defeated. The Fascist radio operator gives a Nazi bomber their position. The bomber's guns rake the decks murderously before Humphrey, Bogart, singlehanded, shoots it down. Cinemactor...