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Word: cinemactresses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Sigrid Gurie, 24, Brooklyn-born, Norwegian-bred cinemactress; and Laurence C. Spangard, 42, Hollywood physician ; she for the second time, he for the first; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...smoothly functioning cast. No surprises are the easy ad-libbish styles of Stars Grant and Lombard, the enameled professional finish of oldtime Actor Charles Coburn as Alec's conventional father. Surprising to many cinemaddicts, however, will be the effectively venomous performance, as Alec's mercenary wife, of Cinemactress Kay Francis. Having worked out a long-term contract with Warner Bros, which kept her in the top money (over $5,000 a week) but buried her as the suffering woman in a string of B pictures, sleek Cinemactress Francis in her first free-lance job shows that she still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...private life Violinist Heifetz is the husband of queenly, retired Cinemactress Florence Vidor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...more "oomph"' than any girl in town. "Oomph," said Dudley Field Malone, "is a very beautiful thing that convention demands be clothed." Said Screenwriter Graham Baker: "Oomph is something in a girl which begets propositions not proposals, gets her chased instead of chaste." As the Oomph Girl, Cinemactress Sheridan was more photographed, talked about, gossip-columned than any recognized Hollywood star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Because a Paris weekly (Pour Vous) reported that she had been angling for a job as Nazi propagandist, sullen-eyed, Polish-born Cinemactress Polo Negri (real name: Appollonia Chalupec), 40, got herself up in a salmon-pink outfit, stormed into court, demanded 1,000,000 francs damages. Last week Cinemactress Negri was awarded 10,000 francs (about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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