Word: cinemactresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Herbert Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, 24, British Davis Cup tennis player who was largely responsible for the defeat of the U. S. team last July (TIME, July 27); and Phyllis Konstam, British cinemactress; in London...
...ready to give up acting to try running a hotel in Paris when Director Allan Dwan offered her a job in Hollywood. The part that made her a cinema star, as she had been a stage star 25 years before,* came later-a bit in Anna Christie. Said Cinemactress Dressier: "They make you a star and then you starve. All I want is a small part to come in and upset the plot...
Remarried. Gloria Swanson, 31, cinemactress; and Michael Farmer, 29, Irish sportsman; at Yuma, Ariz. They were illegally married last August at the Greenburgh, N. Y., summer home of Lawyer Dudley Field Malone, before Cinemactress Swanson's divorce from her third husband, Henri, Marquis de la Falaise et de la Coudray, became final...
...ceasing entirely to be Helen Hayes and becoming instead the woman whose life story she portrays, Cinemactress Hayes makes the familiarity of the story double its sadness. As a young girl, she is gay and tender; as a jailbird, she chatters to a friend (Marie Prevost) about her son; as a prostitute, she squeals for money in barrooms and drums up her trade without ever making the error of playing for the audience's sympathy. The picture is well directed by Edgar Selwyn, splendidly acted by the rest of the cast?particularly by Jean Hersholt as an old physician...
...real name is Violet Krauth. She spent the first seven years of her life in Trinidad, British West Indies, the next seven in Massachusetts, and the last four in Hollywood. Her sister Jean, who had been trying to get parts for herself, helped Marian along till Barrymore noticed her. Cinemactress Marsh has greenish eyes, a faintly English accent, a toothy but ingratiating smile. Her next picture, Under Eighteen, will be an anachronism: she had her 18th birthday last week...