Word: cinemactresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fritz Mandel, wife of the president of Austria's famed Hirtenberg Ammunition Works, was, before her marriage last year, Cinemactress Hedy Kiesler who got her start as Eva, the heroine of Extase. Tycoon Mandel not only does everything he can to have the film suppressed in as many countries as possible, but also maintains an offer to buy all outstanding posters of his wife in Extase...
...years ago broad-shouldered Helene Madison, now a cinemactress and out of amateur competition, was the No. 1 amateur girl swimmer in the U. S. Last year Lenore Kight, a pretty, dark-haired husky girl from Homestead, Pa.,* won four of Miss Madison's titles. Last week, Miss Kight successfully defended three of her championships, helped her team win the 880-yd. relay, but in the sprint which meant most ? 100-meter free style ? she came in second...
Died. Marie Dressier (Leila Koerber), 64, cinemactress; of uremia complicated by cancer; in Santa Barbara. Canadian-born, she went on the stage when she was 5, played a profusion of light roles climaxed in 1910 by the lead in Tittle's 'Nightmare in which she sang "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl." Thereafter she appeared in cinemas with Charlie Chaplin (Tillie's Punctured Romance, Tillie's Tomato Surprise). After the War she found herself unable to get engagements, tried futilely to make money in Florida real estate. When she was 60, almost penniless, she scored an overnight hit as "Marthy...
...this, still getting $150 a week, she appeared with Adolphe Menjou, Charles Bickford the late Dorothy Dell. The picture played three weeks at the New York Paramount equaled the record of Mae West's She Done Him Wrong, caused Fox to produce a story written especially for Cinemactress Temple called Baby, Take...
Nobody in Venice last week seemed to know how the trouble started but there it was-a glittering portrait of Cinemactress Marion Davies by Tade Styka, hanging, slambang, in the vestibule of the American Pavilion at the 10th Biennial Art Exhibition. Ever since the Exhibition opened in mid-May visitors thought it strange that this work by a Polish artist should be so prominently displayed in a U. S. collection supposedly owned entirely by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Last week, in London, Mrs. Juliana R. Force, the Whitney Museum's energetic director, thought it was so strange...