Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amiable fantasy, the play is told in homely, backyard terms, with no attempt at cosmic symbolisms. It displays some clever touches. It provides some amusing moments, chiefly at the expense of the gabbling, skeptical townspeople (though their skepticism can hardly be termed extreme). It enables Cinemactor Stuart Erwin to perform, man and tree, very likably. But the play, with its single frail idea, lacks movement and variety. Critic Sir Leslie Stephen once said that certain things are interesting only because they actually happened. That applies, on the whole, to men turning into trees...
Tailored by Tunesmith Irving Berlin for the suave, sleepy voice of Cinemactor Bing Crosby, this song (from Paramount's Holiday Inn) originally expressed the longing for sleet and ice of an Easterner marooned among the palm trees of Hollywood. But with thousands of U.S. servicemen facing snowless Christmases from North Africa to Guadalcanal, White Christmas has unexpectedly become the first big sentimental song hit of World...
...Hollywood, before the Government exempted contracted 1942 salaries from the new income ceiling (see p. 92), Cinemactor Franchot Tone walked...
...Cinemactor Murphy remains merely kind and patient...
...Cinemactor Kelly, expecting a date at The Palace, cripples his hand to dodge the draft, then becomes an overseas Y.M.C.A. entertainer in remorse, at last achieves military valor, the renewed love of Miss Garland and the long-deferred moment on the stage of The Palace...