Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...familiar features of yesterday's TIME style was compound words: cinemactor, radiorator, nudancer. Writers delighted in rustling them up; readers found them by turns fascinating and irritating. Although these coinages still frequently appear in parodies of TIME style, they have disappeared from our columns. But every now and then the old urge still takes hold. For the latest contribution, see TIME ESSAY...
Died. Dennis O'Keefe, 60, breezy cinemactor of the 1930s, '40s and '50s, who played in scores of films, including Hold That Kiss, Brewster's Millions, T-Men; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. Edward Flanagan was his name, bit parts and stunting were his game when O'Keefe was discovered by Clark Gable in 1937 and given a screen test that started his career as filmdom's comic guy-next-door. By the late '40s, he was writing and directing his own movies; he tried TV with The Dennis O'Keefe...
...gala banquet in Richmond, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts named the tall and stately Mrs. Brown "Collector of the Year," an award bestowed by the museum's enthusiastic society of collectors on their exemplars (past titleholders: Virginia's Paul Mellon, Chicago's Leigh Block and Cinemactor Vincent Price) in return for a chance to view some of the collec tor's prizes. For her turn, Mrs. Brown put on exhibition 78 prints, drawings and watercolors and 25 books depicting British military uniforms from Henry VIII to George V, selected from her martial collection, which...
Died. Herbert Marshall, 75, British-born cinemactor, who lost his right leg in World War I, learned to walk with only the barest limp on an artificial limb, then emigrated to the U.S. and became the very model of a Hollywood Briton in all the stereotypes from charming rake (Trouble in Paradise) to losing-but-noble lover (Accent on Youth); apparently of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
Born. To Suzy Parker, 32, onetime model, sometime actress (Circle of Deception), and Bradford Dillman, 34, brooding cinemactor (A Rage to Live): their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles...