Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Primo ("Old Satchelfoot") Camera, 33, hulking, gullible Italian roustabout, who became world heavyweight champion prize fighter in 1933, later a cinemactor, and Giuseppina Cavazzi Carnera, 27; their first child, a son; in Sequals, Italy. Weight: 11 lbs. Name: Umberto...
...years went by and Pianist Levant showed no signs of becoming another Paderewski, he drifted off to Hollywood. As a friend of the late George Gershwin, he became successively a: 1) cinemactor, 2) assistant to a producer of Westerns, 3) composer of cinema scores, 4) one-hit tunesmith (Lady Play Your Mandolin), 5) one-piece piano virtuoso (the famed Gershwin-Grofé Rhapsody in Blue), and an intermittent pupil of famed Arnold Schönberg, who taught him how to write complicated high-brow music. When, nine years later, he returned to Manhattan to conduct and arrange music for shows...
Divorced. Ethel Hilder (Ruby) Keeler, 30, ex-dancer, cinemactress, from Asa Yoelson (Al Jolson), 51, mammy singer, cinemactor; in Los Angeles...
...spectacular remake of an old horror film in which the late Lon (Man of a Thousand Faces) Chancy, with the help of an elaborately repulsive makeup, set a standard for cinema frightfulness hard to beat. So hard, that the more repulsive make-up (by Perc Westmore) with which British Cinemactor Charles Laughton proposed to beat it was a devoutly cherished secret of this production. Thirty-four pounds lighter than Lon Chaney's, Laughton's make-up consists of a sponge-rubber right cheek and false eye socket, which covers Laughton's own right eye, keeps his face...
Even more amazing is the make-up magic by which Westmore somehow transfers burly, bulging Cinemactor Laughton's paunch to his shoulder...