Word: cinemactors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Time for Love (Paramount). To prove that photography can also be art, Claudette Colbert (an artistic photographer) ventures deep into a vehicular tunnel and is confronted by brusque, briskety Fred MacMurray (a sandhog). Stripped to the belt, bawling and brawling with his fellow sandhogs, Cinemactor MacMurray strikes Cinemactress Colbert as so photogenic that she instantly sets her tripod for him. But Mr. MacMurray will have no truck with Miss Colbert's arty shallowness. Says he: "If you want to buy some muscles, go out and get yourself a cheap cut of beef...
Mickey Rooney, an adolescent rakehell from the East, is sent west to Cody College for a semester in celibacy. Cinemactor Rooney is comically slapped around by cowboys and horses until he learns his lesson, saves the college from folding by staging a coeducational rodeo, wins the dean's niece (Judy Garland), and escorts her through a western omelet of dance routines to the strains of I Got Rhythm...
...Born. To Cinemactor Charles Boyer, 45, and Pat Patterson Boyer, 32, Yorkshire-born onetime cinemactress: a son, their first child; after ten years of marriage; in Los Angeles. Weight...
Married. Frances Rose Shore (synco-patress "Dinah Shore"), 26; and Signal Corps Corporal George Montgomery, 27, peacetime cinemactor (Bomber's Moon), onetime Montana cowboy; each for the first time; in Las Vegas...
Olivia de Havilland possesses all the personal charm of a marshmallow which can also cook. She also has distinct limitations as a comedienne, not much helped when she has to sob about Sonny Tufts: "He's just like a great big long-eared dog." Cinemactor Tufts develops a rich comic realism. His conventional pinstripes and orgiastic ties, his scuffed luggage, his interviews with various Washington bureaucratic heavies are bright enough bits of authenticity to delight any director. Agnes Moorehead, under Dudley Nichols' direction, turns in a portrait of a Washington wolverine which is a blend of comic-strip...