Word: cinemactor
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...Cinemactor Clifton Webb was one refugee from Broadway (Sunny, 1925, The Little Show, 1929) who was finding life in Hollywood exactly to his taste (see CINEMA). Being a star again, he confided to an interviewer, was "fun, a lot of fun, and I love it. There's no use pretending I'm a modest fellow . . . Some day I shall write a song called I Fascinate...
After a visit by Cowboy Cinemactor Roy Rogers, during which some 4,000 swarming youngsters almost swallowed him up before police reinforcements arrived, Denver's Mayor Quigg Newton used his weekly radio chat to apologize for City Hall's unpreparedness. Explained the mayor: "[The police] had no advance knowledge of the effect this particular movie star produces on children...
...stared across their food & drink in joyless apathy. When Artie picked up his clarinet for a solo, his fans perked up; but out came Nicolai Berezowsky's concerto, and interest palled. Then flashbulbs began to pop; first-night celebrities queued up to have their pictures taken with new Cinemactor Kirk (Champion) Douglas...
...First two: Cinemogul Charles P. Skouras, $985,300; Cinemactor Humphrey Bogart, $467,351. *No kin to Robert Hall, a name plucked from...
Died. Wallace Fitzgerald Beery, 63, lumbering veteran (more than 200 movies since 1913) cinemactor; of a heart aik ment; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Famed for his bluff, tough-guy-with-a-heart-of-gold roles (though he started in films as a female impersonator), Beery was a box-office favorite for years in such money-making pictures as Tugboat Annie and Min and Bill (with Marie Dressier), The Big House, Grand Hotel, Viva Villa!, won an Academy award in 1931 for his role as the good-natured pug-ugly in The Champ...