Word: cinemactresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Calling at the White House, Charles R. Abbott, executive director of the American Institute of Steel Construction, told the President: "Politically you are becoming stronger and stronger every day." Billie Dove, cinemactress (Cock o' the Air), also visited Mr. Hoover, told him he "looked well...
...Friend. The ingénue is a tall blond named June Knight. Bert Lahr, whose large following is convulsed by his funny faces and mispronunciations, is the comedian and Lynne Overman (Dancing Partners) is more or less his foil. The siren is a dark mite with a great big smile, Cinemactress Lupe Velez. Her shapely shoulders are burdened with that part of the show which Mr. Lahr does not carry. Last week she inspired Hearst Colyumist Arthur Brisbane, whose employer owns the Ziegfeld Theatre, to strike off a memorable simile. Wrote Mr. Brisbane: "Thirty 'glorified' girls that stand behind...
...standing outside a Kansas City drugstore. It caused her pressagent to invent the phrase "platinum blonde." It also caused a major revival of the hair-bleaching industry. Jean Harlow has had a larger influence on the trade of beauticians and the habits of their customers than any other cinemactress in the last two years. Because its ivory-colored covering soils so easily, Jean Harlow washes her head with soap and a few drops of bluing, every other day. She detests exercise, has a masseuse preserve her figure. She wears low-cut gowns but travels with her mother and remarks...
...Zelli's." It failed within a week. Still rich, popular, he will continue to greet genially many of the world's prominent, some of its eminent, within the ur bane doors of his "American Bar" on the Rue Fontaine, Paris. Here may be seen a beauteous cinemactress flirting coyly with a fun-loving British peer over the telephones which hospitable Joe Zelli placed on every table to facilitate social intercourse; or, on rare occasions, a tycoon-sired U. S. collegian squirting seltzer-water at beturbanned Indian moguls.* William Bateman ("Tinplate") Leeds provided a fine funeral complete with...
Carmel Myers, onetime cinemactress, was robbed in her house of $20,000 worth of jewelry, escaped being bound and gagged by informing the burglars she was pregnant...