Word: cinemactresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blame falls somewhere between the lips of Cinemactress Greta Garbo and the ears of TIME'S Cinema reporter, who thought he heard her say "Voltaire" when she said "Moliere" (born 1622, died 1673).-ED. Quiz Sirs...
With Little Women, Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn made a place for herself in the film firmament. But Greta Garbo is still America's Swedish Sweetheart...
...successful cinemactor. He plays golf in the 703, wants to write short stories, is incorporated under his real name, Harry Lillis Crosby. His acting shoes contain one and a half-inch "lifts." His great-great-grandfather was one of John Jacob Astors sea captains. His wife, onetime Cinemactress Dixie Lee, calls him the Crooner. Says Crosby : "I'd like to be able to sing like the crooners. The reason is a crooner gets his quota of sentimentality with half his natural voice. That's a great saving. I don't like to work." Convention City (First National...
...Twenty guests of President & Mrs. Roosevelt, including Comedian Eddie Dowling and Cinemactress Lillian Gish, had dinner at the White House and saw a preview of a film adapted from Arnold Bennett's Buried Alive, featuring Miss Gish. At one point the President remarked: "Eddie, that music is too heavily scored." Mr. Dowling agreed. After the showing an English lady gushed: "I loved it! All those English scenes. I only wonder whether the American public will appreciate its subtle appeal?" "Tut. tut," replied the smiling President. "I'm one of the American mob and I enjoyed it thoroughly...
Divorced. "Prince" Serge Mdivani, sleekest of Russia's "Marrying Mdivanis," divorced husband of Cinemactress Pola Negri; by Mary McCormic, operasinger; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty (he threatened to "maim and disfigure" her, called her "terrible names," locked her in the bathroom, paid no bills). Two days later Singer McCormic heard that a hotel hostess named Grace null was in a Los Angeles newspaper office hawking details of the property settlement. Raging, she sped thither, slapped the informant soundly. Prince Serge defended Miss Williams: "She had a perfect right. . . . I have given her the keeping of all my private papers...