Word: cinemactresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What stormy Cinemactress Bette Davis likes better than anything else are cinema roles she can get her claws into. Last week Bette took a disdainful look at the script of Author Faith Baldwin's Comet Over Broadway, said it reminded her of weak tea, flatly refused to play in it.*Promptly her studio, Warner Bros., suspended her, cut off her $3,500-a-week salary for the six weeks it may take to find her another picture. Commented Bette, whose rebellion against Warners nearly two years ago wound up in the British courts: "I feel we will have legal...
Died. Austin Parker, 46, screen writer (Week End); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood. Five years ago Cinemauthor Parker wrote Cinemactress Miriam Hopkins, then his wife, asking that there be "no sadness, no mourning and no ceremony" after his death. Now the wife of Director Anatole Litvak, Cinemactress Hopkins last week gathered with other Parker friends in a Hollywood funeral parlor, "just to sit around," she said, "and talk about what a swell...
...nationwide parlor-casting bees, but one who came close to what the public seemed to want in Scarlett. That actress was Bette Davis-tempestuous, intense, compact & casehardened, with diamond dust in her voice, bug eyes lit with a cold blue glitter, and as wide a dramatic range as any cinemactress in the business...
Engaged. Katherine Gibbs ("Kay") Francis Gaston Meehan MacKenna, 33, cinemactress (White Angel, First Lady, Mary Stevens M.D.); to Raven Erik Barnekow, 41, minor German baron; in Hollywood...
While the National Association of Broadcasters convened last week in Washington, D. C., not a mention was made of Cinemactress Mae West or her now celebrated Adam & Eve air skit. But when Senator Burton K. Wheeler referred to ''entertainment which transgresses the standards of decency & good taste," every one of the 436 N. A. B. members present knew what he was driving at. Just in case someone might have forgotten, Variety's widely-read radio section carried a full-page, $400 advertisement, in big bold type: ''Salutations! National Association of Broadcasters . . . from the CHAMPION...