Word: cinemactor
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...parts arduously expanded. In Min & Bill, she was proprietress of a low-grade boarding house. Wallace Beery was her star boarder. Largely slapstick comedy, the picture included a six-minute fight between Dressier and Beery in which Cinemactress Dressier threw things, among them a pottie, at Cinemactor Beery. Cinemactress Dressier enjoyed making the fight scenes. When she and Beery were too tired to go on, she rested in a portable bungalow dressing room which she got for Christmas from Marion Davies...
...composite of "Greta Garbo's Dream Man" showing Cinemactor Conrad NageFs hair, a set of teeth allegedly George Bancroft's, and Jimmy Durante's "schnozzle...
...Laugh Parade is produced, staged, largely written by and for Ed Wynn. It presents the usual Wynnsome monkeyshines, Comedienne Jeanne Au-bert's thin little voice and chipmunk smile, and Cinemactor Lawrence Gray, behaving like a perfect little Hollywood gentleman. Indeed handsome Mr. Gray affords the only note of restraint to the show. Unconsciously he betrays an apprehension that someone in the cast may take advantage of his being a motion picture actor, start making fun of him. Otherwise The Laugh Parade goes its merry way without benefit of libretto or commonsense...
...Unholy Garden (United Artists). Ronald Colman is the cinemactor who exemplifies romantic savoir faire. His admirers are pleased to note that no situation causes him to lose his deliberated calm, his air of graceful self-sufficiency. Colman's qualifications, together with Estelle Taylor's expert impersonation of a lush and crafty siren, comprise the chief virtues of The Unholy Garden. The story is by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, who were unsure whether they were writing comedy or melodrama and did neither vigorously...
...Said Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin in London: "What I should really like above everything else would be to stand for Parliament...