Word: cinemactor
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...everybody knows it will all end with Ray Milland (a psychologist) leading Loretta Young (a bachelor girl) to the altar, the problem is to provide enough comedy antics to keep the customers awake until the wedding. Cinemactor Milland and the dummy head ("Chester") which he uses for his researches provide some of them. Gail Patrick (the girl Milland jilts) and Edmund Gwenn (the butler in The Earl of Chicago) provide some more. So does the technical chatter of some eminent psychologists. Observers are likely to be delighted when the romp is over...
When Phil Charig of this musical set asked him to drive to California one day, Grant went along for the ride, stayed to work five years for Paramount. As a dark, sleek, bedimpled leading man, Cinemactor Grant made $500 a week, but he did not make much headway in pictures. Says he: "They had a lot of leading men over there with dark hair and a set of teeth like me, and they couldn't be buying stories for each of us. . . ." When his contract with Paramount expired, Grant struck out for himself, since then has averaged three...
...woman customer went into such hysterics she had to be led out. On hand was Producer Zanuck's assistant, Poloist Aidan Roark. But he was blacked out by the burlier presence of the picture's villain, enormously popular colored Cinemactor Maceo B. Sheffield. Also present was Producer Friedrich's Scripter Dana Burnett. The surges of surflike laughter told both scouts that the canny Parson Friedrich had scored again...
Divorced. Actor Franchot Tone,34; by Cinemactress Joan Crawford, 32, who in 1934 divorced Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; after sentimental get-togethers while the final decree was pending; in Los Angeles...
...Picture. Last week Director Kline showed his picture. Novelist James Hilton (Goodbye, Mr. Chips} had supplied a simple, moving commentary read by Cinemactor Fredric March. For those who cannot experience war at first hand, the next best thing is to see Lights Out in Europe...