Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas, who is now busily denying he ever was a fellow traveler, was named lieutenant colonel of intelligence in California's National Guard. His "duty": to make public and radio speeches come M Day. Wags suggested that "Comrade" Harry Bridges might be given command of the militia...
...Gallatti, assistant in the last war to Founder A. Piatt Andrew, to resume business. They pitched in, raised funds to send off 38 men, 6 ¾-ton Chevrolet trucks for duty in France, although only 20 ambulances are in the field so far. Their most prominent recruit to date: Cinemactor Robert Montgomery, who last week joined...
...Waterloo Bridge has its points. Expensively produced, it successfully continues Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's intensive he-manizing of Robert Taylor. Booted, trench-coated and sporting a dark, hairline mustache (the inspiration of Director Mervyn LeRoy), Cinemactor Taylor is a dashing officer. His continual kissing of Cinemactress Leigh may become a little tiresome to nonparticipants. But one kiss, after which the camera highlights and hangs suspended upon the languid Taylor lips, should go a long way toward rehabilitating Cinemactor Taylon with his fickle feminine fans and re-establishing him as a valuable studio property...
This takes some time and Helen Vinson, whose oomph is less curvilinear and more serpentine than Ann Sheridan's, nearly spoils the happy synthesis. She also is so irresistibly attracted to Cinemactor Cagney that when her overseer husband (Jerome Cowan) remarks that Cagney looks half dead after being shot up in the jungle, Miss Vinson snaps unkindly: "That still leaves him 50% up on you." But Miss Vinson is too much the intellectual type. Ann Sheridan soon demonstrates that the way to Mr. Cagney's heart is to heave a plate of sandwiches at him so that...
Cagney: As the capstone to Warners' build-up of Ann Sheridan, the fade-out required Cagney to observe: "You and your 14-carat oomph!" When Cinemactor Cagney protested the line, Producer Mark Hellinger bet him $100 that audiences would give the gag the loudest laugh of the film. A few days after the preview, Producer Hellinger found Cagney's check for $100 in the mail...