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Word: cinemactresses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Engaged. Cinemactress Mary Pickford ("America's Sweetheart"), 43, divorced wife of Douglas Fairbanks Sr.; and Charles ("Buddy") Rogers ("America's Boy Friend"), 32, curly-haired cinemactor; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...wife Ruth appeared in the Los Angeles District Attorney's office when the case of their jobless friend Reid Russell's suicide was re-opened at the request of the deceased's mother. Under questioning, Mrs. Morris confessed that, on the advice of oldtime Cinemactress Lila Lee, she had burned a suicide note left by Reid. Still unexplained were such questions as: why Russell's body lay unfound in the Morris' lawn swing for twelve hours; why no bullet was found; whether the shot that killed Russell was fired from the rusty gun he clasped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...rivals for Cheers Reynolds, small town sweet-shop operator (Eleanore Whitney). O'Riley goes to little Green Ridge College where he warms the bench. Merrill becomes a star at big Sierra. Agile ballyhooing of the players' amatory conflicts, complicated by Merrill's infatuation for a cinemactress (Priscilla Lawson), builds Green Ridge into a Rose Bowl attraction. Here Coach Moore (William Frawley) wins the game by putting O'Riley in, disguised in a nose cast, after he has dismissed him from the team for improper behavior. Best part: Larry ("Buster") Crabbe, 1932 Olympic swimmer, more recently famed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 9, 1936 | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Then came disaster. The line failed to get the mail contracts it needed. Crashes killed not only Jimmy Wedell, but all five other original pilots on the line. Last May a crash killed Harry Williams. Last week, for an undisclosed price, his widow, one-time Cinemactress Marguerite Clark, sold the business to Eastern Air Lines, which flies between New York and New Orleans. Present Wedell-Williams airline is the 338-mi. run from New Orleans to Houston, Tex. In honor of its unlucky founders. Eastern will call this important extension the Wedell-Williams Division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: One Merger, One Sale | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...only had one date when I was in high school." Bachelor Guy Bassilli from Cairo, Egypt, did not talk for publication. Cleveland's Guy Baker, less shy, demanded on alighting from his transcontinental plane: "Where's Mae? Why isn't she here to meet me?" Cinemactress West was ill with influenza, recovered sufficiently to receive her guests in her boudoir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 9, 1936 | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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