Word: cinemactresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presented at Jasper Deeter's cooperative, experimental Hedgerow Theatre outside Philadelphia was Behold Your God, two-part "economic satire" by Richard Houghton Hepburn, 24, lanky brother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn. Behold Your God was the outcome of an agreement between Richard Hepburn and his father, Dr. Thomas N. Hepburn of Hartford, Conn., whereby Richard was to be "let alone" for three years to try his hand at drama. Professional critics found Behold Your God "dull." "extravagant/ "blurred," "inarticulate," "esoteric, ""luci< as a timetable...
...determined by Motion Picture Herald's poll of U. S. exhibitors. As rival to President Roosevelt and King Edward VIII for most photographed celebrity, she appears in an average of 20 still portraits daily for magazines, newspapers and advertisements. In addition to being, accurately speaking, the most popular cinemactress, Shirley Temple is the ablest song-plugger in Hollywood. Sheet music sales on her songs, like Polly Wolly Doodle and On the Good Ship Lollipop, are over 400,000 copies each. These are larger than the sales of songs introduced in the same period by Bing Crosby, Jeanette MacDonald...
...inborn talents and a clever child's natural aptitude in imitating her elders, three years of experience have added, in the case of Cinemactress Temple, the technique of a seasoned trouper. In Captain January she had to come down a 45-ft. lighthouse stairway while a camera crane moved beside her catching a line at each turn of the stairs. The difficulty was to time the lines exactly to the turns and simultaneously to a dance step with which she was punctuating her words. Shirley did not miss once...
Cherry Chester (Margaret Sullavan) meets and marries Anthony Amberton (Fonda) without knowing that he is a famed boy-explorer who has excited her professional jealousy. Amberton is equally ignorant that she is a cinemactress whom he dislikes because she has sponsored a musky perfume. A painful experience in Africa has so conditioned his reaction to musk that when, on their wedding night, his bride applies the sponsored product to her person, he forsakes...
Small Town Girl (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cinemactress Janet Gaynor occupies a unique niche in Hollywood. She is one of the half dozen pre-talkie stars who are still front rank box-office attractions. This phenomenal record has been made in the face of the fact that for ten years she has been playing, with superficial variations but no real exceptions, one role, that of Cinderella. The news that, loaned to MGM, she was to appear in a Ben Ames Williams story originally picked for Jean Harlow started hopes that Miss Gaynor's marathon might be about to end. Small...