Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cinemactor Freddie Bartholomew, 18year-old ex-child star, was sworn into the Army Air Forces in Los Angeles as a ground crewman. British-born, he took out his first U.S. citizenship papers last March, can automatically become a citizen after three months in the service. Last week, looking ahead, he figured the war "might be over in time for me to do some more acting...
...work as a cinemactor went portly, playful Dudley Field Malone, 60, once wealthy, long-famed attorney for the glittering great, once assistant Secretary of State (under Wilson). The film: Hollywood's version of Friend Joseph E. Davies' Mission to Moscow. The role: Winston Churchill, for whom Malone, from the skull down, is a ringer...
Classed as objectors willing to accept noncombatant duties (1-A-O)-ambulance drivers, stretcher-bearers, etc.-were 6,577 others. (Most famous 1-A-O: Cinemactor Lew Ayres.) In prison for draft-law violations were between 1,000 and 1,300 avowed conscientious objectors, half of them members of Jehovah's Witnesses, whose claims did not get draft-board recognition...
Movie exhibitors reported that the cinemactor who had made them the most money in 1942 was a team: (Bud) Abbott & (Lou) Costello. The boisterous comics shouldered out boisterous Mickey Rooney, who slipped to fourth in the poll after leading it for three years. Second biggest moneymaker has been in the Army five months-Clark Gable, one of the top ten ever since the poll was first taken eleven years ago. Gary Cooper ran third. Newcomer to the golden gang: golden Betty Grable, who ran eighth...
Divorced. By Hungarian Cinemactress Ilona Massey, 31; Cinemactor Alan Curtis, 32; in Hollywood. She complained that their quarrels "made me look ten years older...