Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invited by BBC to introduce Great Britain's latest tune was dark, vivacious Comedienne Bebe Daniels, star of over 250 oldtime Hollywood flickers, now the plump-&-40 wife of British Cinemactor Ben Lyon. Sang...
Perspiring gently, the audience sat still, in some nervousness. In the front row, not grinning, was big, jug-eared Cinemactor Clark Gable, in a chalk-stripe grey suit; his wife, Carole Lombard, in a funnel-like black hat with a veil, a simple black afternoon dress; Secretary of State Cordell Hull, white-faced, as sombre as his dark suit; and the President's mother, Sara Roosevelt, in a grey-blue evening gown...
...exhibition of paintings, sculpture, photographs and ceramics by celebrities of Southern California's social and cinema world-"important contributions to the Fine Arts by 30 outstanding personalities whose significance in their avocations is little known." Most presentable piece was a craftsmanlike etching, San Pedro, by Cinemactor Lionel Barrymore. Other items...
Five years ago he emigrated to European film studios, where he has throbbed feminine hearts in English, French and Italian pictures. Biggest asset of Cinemactor Lodge is his perfect mastery of these tongues. Says he: "We think it is cute here to have an accent, but not the French." Too Many Girls (RKO Radio) is Broadway Producer-Director George Abbott's faithful reconstruction of his gay stage hit of last season about football and females in a Southwestern college. With the pace of a jack rabbit it bounds from song to dance to comedy to song, offers too short...
Other members of the Independent Voters' executive committee were announced: Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas, Harvard Law School's Dean James M. ("Chink") Landis, Novelist Fannie Hurst, Freda Kirchwey, editor of The Nation, Williams College's Professor Max Lerner, Thomas ("the Cork") Corcoran, official committee agitator, bobbed into New York City to help Mr. LaGuardia. To Springfield, Mass. went handsome Paul V. McNutt, onetime Presidential aspirant himself, whose throat was last year neatly slit by New Deal candidate-assassins. Keynoting the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention, Mr. McNutt described the Republican policy as giving business complete license to operate...