Word: cinemactress
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...this is good fast farce, well cast, well acted. But highlight of Hi Diddle Diddle is the return to the U.S. movies, in a comedy role, of Pola Negri, fabulous vamp of the Rudolph Valentino era. Cinemactress "Negri plays a Wagnerian diva (the soprano voice is dubbed in) married to Adolphe Menjou. Clothed in sumptuous black & white, Pola is as vivacious and comely in comedy as she was as a glamor girl. Slapstick permits her to be as violent as ever. When her accompanist in the picture accuses her of "bellowing like a cow," the temperamental tigress fetches...
Born. To Constance Keane (Veronica Lake) Detlie, 23, honey-haired cinemactress, and Major John Stewart Detlie, 34, peacetime cinemart director: their second child, a 3-lb. premature son; in Hollywood. Mother & son were doing nicely...
Divorced. Army Air Forces Flight Sergeant John L. ("Jackie") Coogan, 28, onetime cinema juvenile, by Flower Parry Coogan, 21 ; after two years of marriage, his second, her first; in Hollywood. His first wife was Cinemactress Betty Grable...
Born. To brunette Cinemactress Joan Bennett Wanger, 33, and Producer Walter Wanger, 48, her onetime boss: their first child, a daughter; after two and a half years of marriage, in Hollywood. Weight: 6 lb. She is also the mother of 15-year-old Diana (by John Fox), 8-year-old Melinda (by Cinemawriter Gene Markey...
...Angeles, a Federal court agreed with golden blonde Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll that the 51 orphans she once supported at her onetime home near Paris were "dependents," returned to her $6,800 in taxes...