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Word: cinemactor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cinemaddict would like to have: a rough, tough man, with romantic overtones, to take home and tame. He is seamy, sturdy, slow-burning Jean Gabin, onetime foundry worker, marine and music-hall comic, whose talent for acting natural and talking slang made him France's No. 1 male cinemactor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 18, 1942 | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

Outsiders were hard at it, too. Cinemactor Gene Lockhart, celebrating a Navy Chaplain's now-famed words during the attack on Pearl Harbor, wrote a "fighting hymn," Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition. General Manager Kent Cooper of the Associated Press tapped out America Needs You. Citizens Song had words by Louis Conyers (pen name of Mrs. Junius Spencer Morgan, daughter-in-law of John Pierpont Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: With Fife & Drum | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...Cinemactor Lew (Dr. Kildare) Ayres, who scored his first screen hit in the anti-war All Quiet On the Western Front, was sent to an undisclosed camp in the West as a conscientious objector. Of the 33-year-old ex-husband of Ginger Rogers the chairman of his draft board said: "We finally came to the conclusion that his objections to Army service were sincere. That's about all there is to say about the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Literary Life | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

Married. Ensign Wayne Morris, 28, ex-cinemactor; and Patricia Ann O'Rourke, 19, of Beverly Hills; he for the second time; in Hollywood. His first wife was Tobacco Heiress Leonora ("Bubbles") Schinasi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 9, 1942 | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

Gilbert Roland also became a U.S. citizen. Husband of Constance Bennett, the cinemactor was born Luis Antonio Damaso De Alonso in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Bejeweled Hyena | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

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