Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. David Niven, Scottish-born cinemactor and soldier of fortune now serving in a London Rifle brigade; and Primula Rollo, daughter of an R. A. F. officer; in Huish, England...
Married. Vivien Leigh, 26, cinemactress; and Laurence Olivier, 33, cinemactor; in Santa Barbara, Calif.; four days after British Barrister Herbert Leigh Hoi-man's divorce from Miss Leigh became final, 25 days after British Actress Jill Esmond obtained an absolute decree from Olivier...
Backer of Hollywood's revival of Tonight at 8:30 is the Theatre Guild of Southern California. Founded by onetime Hollywood Director Dudley Murphy and Cinemactor Alan Mowbray, the Guild was set up as a permanent theatrical company, proposed to present Hollywood talent in plays both old & new. A snarl in Guild plans occurred last week when Co-Founder Murphy split with Partner Mowbray, prepared to start a group of his own. Also disturbing to the Guild was a request from the Theatre Guild in Manhattan that the California outfit change its name to prevent confusion...
Produced by Warner's Hal Wallis with a splendor that would set parsimonious Queen Bess's teeth on edge, constructed of the most tried-&-true cinema materials available, The Sea Hawk is a handsome, shipshape picture. To Irish Cinemactor Errol Flynn, it gives the best swashbuckling role he has had since Captain Blood...
Many a 20th-century writer has shown the influence of the movies. Two who have thus added to the vitality of contemporary writing are Malraux and Dashiell Hammett; Paul Vialar is a third. Jerome himself so inescapably suggests Cinemactor Jean Cabin that the latter must have inspired him. Rose of the Sea is rather a printed movie than a novel, and with a few passages cut would be expert and beautiful...