Word: cinemactresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month, a Los Angeles Grand Jury indicted David Allen and an obscure cinemactress named Gloria Marsh for immorality. Last week the testimony of an extra whose name was not revealed was made public. The extra charged that Allen & Miss Marsh had entered a beauty shop where she was employed and registered her for work; that Allen had later offered her a job if she would "submit to him," that Allen had asked her to invite extra girls to her apartment for parties; that misconduct was usually the price of securing work...
...blinded his right eye. Mechanically inclined, he ran a small garage, saved enough money to buy a second-hand plane which he learned to fly in one hour. Barnstorming around the Southwest took him to Patterson where he met Harry Palmerston Williams, Louisiana lumber tycoon, husband of one-time Cinemactress Marguerite Clark...
Married. Laura La Plante, cinemactress; and Irving Asher, director of the Warner Bros. London studio; in Paris. A witness: onetime Mayor of New York James John ("Jimmy") Walker...
...Cinemactress Mae West: "I am really a rather narrow-minded woman. When my brother was running around with a woman who drank I was worried to death and got him interested in a gymnasium and other things. I do not drink or smoke. I do not go to Hollywood parties. . . . Sometimes I work so hard that I fall asleep at dinner...
Died. Dorothy Dell Goff, 19, blonde cinemactress (Wharf Angel, Little Miss Marker); in an automobile accident; near Altadena, Calif. A series of beauty contests brought her titles of "Miss American Legion," "Miss New Orleans," "Miss America." Florenz Ziegfeld gave her a job in the Follies of 1931 after she became Galveston's "Miss Universe" in a $2.98 white bathing suit. In Hollywood she was being groomed for stardom...