Word: cinemactor
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...plan frustrated by the machinations of a lace-collared fifth columnist, Lord Wolfingham.* (Henry Daniell), Captain Thorpe is clapped into a Spanish galley. There he endures lashings so realistic that a lady tourist in the Warner studio who saw them being administered to Cinemactor Flynn fainted dead away. Just as the captain is about done in, he hears the greatest news in English history, is inspired to take over the ship, race to England, thrust and parry his way through the palace and Lord Wolfingham to warn his Queen in time that the Armada...
Born. To Don Ameche, 32, cinemactor, and Honore Prendergast Ameche, 32, a son, their fourth, five weeks after the release of his latest movie, Four Sons: in Hollywood...
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) marks Mickey Rooney's ninth appearance as bratty Andy Hardy, his first since he was crowned King of the Screen and the No. 1 box-office attraction of the U. S. cinema. More believable as Andy than as young Tom Edison, Cinemactor Rooney mugs his way from Carvel to Manhattan to make good on a boast that he is acquainted with a glamorous bud named Daphne Fowler (Diana Lewis). The Judge (Lewis Stone), nominally heading the expedition, is engaged on a legal chore thoroughly in keeping with the Hardy character: protecting...
...such oldsters as Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore and Lewis Stone have discovered, Mickey Rooney thrives on his ability and determination to steal anything up to a death scene from a colleague. Some of Cinemactor Stone's heartiest chuckles may be explained by the fact that 17-year-old Judy Garland, growing prettier by the picture and armed for this one with two good songs, Alone and I'm Nobody's Baby, treats Mickey with a dose of his own medicine...
...Brent is on excellent terms with his agent, Minna Wallis (sister of Warner's production chief, Hal Wallis), Warner is happily paying him $3,000 a week, and his popularity was never greater. His willingness to work in almost any kind of picture is only one element in Cinemactor Brent's reputation as a man of mystery...