Word: cinemactress
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...bearded and extremely vigorous, Waldo Peirce has lived 14 years in Maine, 20 in Europe. Recently he moved with his third wife and their three children to a farmhouse in Pomona, N.Y., near Manhattan (reason: the gas shortage). His Pomona neighbors include Playwright Maxwell Anderson, Cinemactress Paulette Goddard. But Miss Goddard, says Peirce, turns up only very rarely "to stroke a goat...
...Bobby (Betty Hutton) an ace reporter, Patti (Mimi Chandler) a Shakespearean actress, Josie (Diana Lynn) a composer. Between daydreams and quarrels they pick up spare cash by staging musical acts at a local roadhouse. There they run afoul of a transient bandleader, Happy Marshall (Fred MacMurray), who promptly advises Cinemactress Lamour: "Let's not fight this thing, it's bigger than both of us." She is not impressed, but innocent Cinemactress Hutton...
...stretcher, his mother opens the hospital window so that he may hear the band music of the newly arrived U.S. troops. With fierce pride she describes them to her dying British son: "All the strong young boys, beautiful and proud with dreams. . . ." "God will never forgive us . . ,." adds Cinemactress Dunne, "if we break faith with our dead again...
...Cinemactress Montez, in her strenuously unclad dual role, did not provide cheesecake enough, there is also Sabu in a pair of trig bathing trunks. A big boy now, and still growing, Sabu looks more like Elephant Boy than when he made the picture so called. Most conservatively dressed member of the cast is a chimpanzee...
...come to life on the screen, but also to realize, as no other screen actress does, that love is made up of kinds of candor, force and delicateness against which, so far, the Hays Office has contrived no adequate nets. There is a breathtaking honeymoon moment, expressed simply in Cinemactress Bergman's sure, elated walk from her bedside to her husband, which for plenitude and beauty has not been approached since Garbo's great days...