Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first day, he makes friends with East (Freddie Bartholomew) by buying him a Murphy (roast potato), learns that the lower school is dominated by a cruel fifth former named Flashman. With a British accent imperfectly disguising Cinemactor Halop's Dead End manners, Flashman and his stooges steal Tom's food, almost break his back, torture him by roasting over an open fire. Tom spurs his friends to a revolt against Flashman, culminating in a nose-busting brawl between the two leaders bloodier than anything hitherto exhibited in the juvenile cinema...
...ousted in the finals of Producer David Selznick's hunt for a Tom Sawyer. He and Freddie Bartholomew raced to work in their cars every morning until Lydon bowled over an R. K. O. watchman and Producer Towne threatened to put them both off the lot. At 17, Cinemactor Lydon believes that he will be washed up in five years. After that he wants to be a cameraman...
...time bagging specimens, Linda undertakes to jog him into jealousy and a proposal by flirting with Jim. The moment seems to have arrived when Linda and Jim, caught away from camp by a rainstorm, have to hole up in a tree for the night. No Columbia man, Cinemactor Fairbanks drops off to sleep. But he wakes up later...
...student to work his way through college, points out as exemplars Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herbert Hoover, Nicholas Murray Butler, Paul V. McNutt, Dartmouth's President Ernest Martin Hopkins, U. S. Senator Claude Pepper, Minnesota's Governor Harold Stassen, Atlas Corp.'s Floyd B. Odium, Cinemactor Fredric March, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Pollster George Gallup. Self-supporting U. S. college students (about half of all undergraduates), he reports, earn $32,500,000 a year, get some $90,000,000 a year in scholarships or loans. Most of his book is devoted to tips...
...Todd. It had Richard Nichols to play the Duke's pathetic, lovable little son. It had such veteran actors as Walter Hampden, Helen Westley, Fritz Leiber (very sinister as a saintly father confessor). It had décors gorgeous enough to have come straight out of a cinemactor's dream home. Its historical accuracy was as literal, multiplex, unflagging and fatiguing as the iterations of an adding machine. It had Rachel Field's 1840 period plot about the high-minded love of Governess Bette Davis and Charles Boyer which passes into tragedy, prison and ostracism after...