Word: cinemactor
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When Hollywood partners part, they often do it with a bang. Author Ben Hecht and Cinemactor Bob Hope were partners in MGM's The Iron Petticoat, a Ninotchka-type farce co-starring Hope and Katharine Hepburn. The script by Hecht tells of a Russian aviatrix who flees the Soviet Union in a MIG and is piloted about Europe by a U.S. Air Force officer. Now that The Iron Petticoat is ready to be publicized, Scripter Hecht last week washed his hands of the whole project in a paid ad ($275) on the back page of the Hollywood Reporter...
...page complaint to void his contract and collect damages of $142,500 plus interest, Cinemactor Ernest (Marty) Borgnine went on record to say that sudden success in the movies is not necessarily followed by sudden riches in real life. On Borgnine's last movie, the holders of his contract (Hecht-Lancaster) allegedly exercised their contractual right to pre-empt his services, then lent him out to do the same movie he was negotiating for. His contract-holders got "at least $75,000." Borgnine got $15,000. The movie: The Best Things in Life Are Free...
Born. To Jean Simmons, 27. hazel-eyed British-born film actress (Guys and Dolls), and tall, wavy-maned Stewart Granger, 43 (real name: James Stewart), British-born cinemactor (Bhowani Junction): their first child (his third), a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Tracy (for Actor Spencer Tracy). Weight...
Born. To Peter Lawford, 32, lanky cinemactor (It Should Happen to You), and Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 31, younger sister of John F. ("Jack") Kennedy, Massachusetts' Democratic junior Senator: their second child, a daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Weight...
Died. Andre Eugene Maurice Chariot, 73, sometime Hollywood cinemactor (The Constant Nymph), longtime (1924-41) producer of Britain's famed Chariot's Revue; in Hollywood...