Word: cinemactress
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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...
...cocky as he acted. Now it is simply an act. He has acquired the detachment of a veteran vaudevillian. He is a natural dancer and comedian, and his little parlor tricks-especially one burlesque broadcast-are a pleasure to watch. Even better is Judy Garland. As sung by Cinemactress Garland, Embraceable You and Bidin' My Time become hits all over again, and the new But Not For Me sounds like another. Her presence is open, cheerful, warming. If she were not so profitably good at her own game, she could obviously be a dramatic cinema actress with profit...
...Rooney Wit. She even likes the Rooney ribbing and the Rooney wit. Well out of sight of the director, Mickey still mugs like a tic-ravaged chimpanzee in hopes that Cinemactress Garland will louse up the take with a laugh. An example of the Rooney wit occurred during the shooting of Babes in Arms. While Judy was catching a nap in her dressing room, Mickey planted a smoke-pot at the doorsill, bawled "FIRE!", and dashed a glass of water in her face as she sprinted out. Sometimes Miss Garland retaliates. When, making Girl Crazy, she appeared in white calfskins...
Outsized Newcomer Willard Parker, smooth Brian Aherne, some sharp dialogue and, above all, sharp Cinemactress Russell, who has the edgy glitter of black jet, help to keep this unlikely comedy likable...
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...