Word: cinemactor
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Died. Roland Young, 65, veteran London-born cinemactor (Topper, Ruggles of Red Gap), whose clipped moustache, clipped accent and acidly debonair style made him a comic stand-by of the U.S. screen for more than two decades; in Manhattan...
...Cinemactor Lionel Barrymore, a bright-eyed 75, with his first novel (Mr. Cantonwine) newly done, acknowledged that he was preparing a few sample columns for a newspaper syndicate. "There's nothing I'd like better than to be able to sound off about my favorite ideas," he rumbled. "They think I'm a sweet old man. Wait till they start reading my column...
...Angeles court, Cinemactor John (The Quiet Man) Wayne cried the financial blues as his estranged wife, onetime Mexican Cinemactress Esperanza Baur, demanded $9,000 a month (he is offering $900) while her separate maintenance suit is being decided. Besides all the expenses of stardom, said Wayne, he had to cope with taxes and an extravagant wife. "I know it sounds ridiculous." sighed the cinema heman, whose 1952 income was estimated at $500,000 by his wife, but he and Mrs. Wayne "just couldn't make ends meet...
...Cinemactor George (Call Me Madam) Sanders, 46, frazzled partner in a zso-zso marriage to Zsa-Zsa Gabor (she once discarded him, he said, "like a squeezed lemon"), was apparently topping off his feverish domestic life with an overdose of film work. Abandoning his role in the English-made Knights of the Round Table, Sanders, heading home to Hollywood for a long rest, gasped: "I'm very tired. I'm getting...
After a year of waiting for temperamental Cinemactor Mario (The Great Caruso) Lanza to get in the mood to start work on The Student Prince, M-G-M lost its corporate patience, told lawyers to go ahead with its suit against the chubby Mario for $700,000 in production costs to date plus $4,500,000. the loss in anticipated profits. His probable replacement in the star role: Crooner Vic Damone, who will soon be released from the Army...