Word: cinemactresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refute the argument of New York's Independent Theatre Owners Association, who claimed a month ago that her box-office appeal was practically nil. Highly responsive to the cajolings of pudgy, moon-faced Director Cukor, she gives her liveliest performance since appearing in his Little Women-Restoring Cinemactress Hepburn's prestige is not the only coup Columbia will score if Holiday proves a box-office hit for the third time. The company acquired the script for practically nothing, by paying RKO $80,000 for a batch of shelved stories which also turned out to include its current...
...delight of jurors in a Los Angeles court, tempestuous, bow-lipped Cinemactress Constance Bennett giggled, made faces, testified that she refused to pay $3,500 for Artist William Andrew Pogany's portrait of her because he had made her: 1) round shouldered, 2) redheaded, 3) thick-thighed; had not shown her red fingernails; had made her look "like a droopy sack of cement with a rope tied around it." Sit-in model for the portrait had been Mrs. Pogany. Snapped Miss Bennett: "Why, that woman is an Amazon!" Snorted 55-year-old Willy Pogany: "She wanted me to compromise...
Girl in the Street (Gaumont British). Last cinema appearance in the U. S. of blonde British Cinemactress Anna Neagle was in the regal weeds of the Widow of Windsor. This time she sets out in Romany raiment beside a barrel organ, soon warbles her way up in the world. Far too grim and determined a gamine for this two-dimensional story, vaunted Actress Neagle succeeds largely in proving that even she can make...
Sporting a new hat (see cut), Cinemactress Mae West arrived in Manhattan for a series of personal appearances in the East. Said she: "Don't let this halo hat deceive you, boys. I just wear it crossing State lines...
Unemployed and claiming to be broke, Peter F. Reed, onetime vaudevillian, marched into a Los Angeles court, filed suit against his daughter, Marjorie Yvonne (Cinemactress Martha Raye), asked for $50 of her $2,500 a week salary. Maintaining that when his wife divorced him last year she promised that she or her daughter would foot his living expenses, Father Reed complained she had done no such thing. Said Cinemactress Raye: "All I'll say is that my heart isas big as my mouth...