Word: cinemactresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harding's most impressive qualification as a cinemactress is not her hair, which appears almost ivory-colored in photographs and which she wears in an extraordinary style, but her voice. Its soft, low timbre and sympathetic intonations survive almost perfectly the trying process of mechanical reproduction. Cinemactress Harding is glad she worked as a private secretary in the Manhattan offices of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. She trained herself to enunciate perfectly so that dictaphone records of letters which she relayed to typists would not, like those of her colleagues, be blurred and unintelligible. She gave...
...three were William Powell, Kay Francis and Ruth Chatterton. Most raucous was Paramount's excitement over losing Miss Chatterton. Warner Bros, were several times rumored to be ready to give her back but last week Cinemactress Chatterton was busy with her last Paramount picture (Tomorrow & Tomorrow), planned to begin work for Warner Bros...
Divorced. William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey; from Estelle Taylor, cinemactress, for mental cruelty; in Reno...
...Cinemactress Marion Davies had a party at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel to celebrate her return from Europe. William Randolph Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner called it "the opening of Hollywood's fall and winter social season." spread pictures and lists of Marion Davies & guests over many columns. No other Los Angeles newspaper reported the event...
...Wanda Mansfield (now under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) and Barbara Stanwyck (who is now being sued for breach of contract by Columbia), Mae Clarke was once a dancer at the Manhattan Everglades Club. A table for three in Manhattan's Tavern restaurant was reserved for them daily. Cinemactress Clarke left the Everglades after a short appearance in The Noose to act in vaudeville. She married and divorced Vaudevillian Lew Brice, went to Hollywood two years ago. She lives with & supports her family which had financial difficulties when her father, a motion picture theatre organist, lost...