Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Pierre Fresnay, 77, cinemactor and onetime member of the Comédie Française of heart disease; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Hailed at his death as the greatest French actor of his generation, Fresnay starred in some 70 films. His most renowned role, in Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion (1938), placed him opposite German prisoner-of-war camp Commandant Erich von Stroheim as anachronistically gallant aristocrats trapped in the horrors of World...
Such mainstays of the vernacular as tycoon, kudos, pundit and socialite all gained currency from their use in TIME. Our movie reviewers borrowed cinema from the French-and played numerous variations on the theme with cinemactor, cinemactress, cinemoppet, cinemogul. The word newsmagazine was a TIME creation...