Word: cinemactresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held sway. The third was a syndicate of birthday balls in Washington, to which 18,000 $2.50 tickets were sold entitling the bearers to visit balls at all or any of six hotels, to travel from ball to ball by free bus. Among the travelers were Guy Lombardo & orchestra, Cinemactress Ginger Rogers (who, though no member of the Cuff-Links Gang, dropped in at the White House) and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. Accompanied by a troupe of handmaidens including Nancy Cook, Marion Dickerman, Malvina Thompson Scheider and Marguerite ("Missy'') Le Hand, and wearing a necklace of tiger...
...Danish "Fanny Farmer," who cared for him after his mother's death, taught him to like to cook, paid for his lessons out of her recipe earnings. Tenor Melchior was well known in Germany in 1925. So, in her own way, was Hannelore Meister, a pretty little stunt cinemactress. One day 105-lb. Fraulein Meister accidentally dropped into Melchior's garden, clutching a parachute. Soon afterward she became Frau Melchior, began her worries over her husband's weight, his costumes, his contracts...
...novel, finer than the stage, finer far than the opera." He stayed with Charlie Chaplin, earnestly studied production methods, wrote abbreviated scenarios which he calls "treatments." Having declared himself "immune to blondes," he was taken in hand by two riotous brunettes, Writer Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) and Cinemactress Paulette Goddard, became the season's socialion. Called upon for a speech, he dodged: "Hollywood leaves me speechless," sat down. Later he developed a pat speech praising technical develop ments in U. S. cinema. Up to last week Author Wells firmly preserved the appearance of a pleasant, reserved, phlegmatic Briton...
When accountants had added up box-office receipts, Miss Shirley Temple emerged as the Cinemactress of the Year...
Married. Claudette Colbert (nee Chauchoin), 30, cinemactress (It Happened One Night, The Bride Comes Home-see p. 28), divorced wife of Actor Norman Foster; and Dr. Joel J. Pressman, 34, Los Angeles throat specialist; in Yuma, Ariz...