Word: cinemactresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Constance, eldest Bennett daughter, married and divorced Millionheir Philip Plant, became a Pathe cinema star, was recently borrowed by Warner Brothers at the largest salary ($300,000 for ten weeks) ever paid a cinemactress. Joan, youngest daughter, acted on the Manhattan stage in Jarnegan, was selected by John Barrymore as his leading woman in Moby Dick (TIME...
...troubles of Cinemactress Clara Bow really began when Benjamin P. Schulberg, Paramount's Western managing director of production, then associate producer, signed her to make silent cinemas in 1925. She was then a well-stuffed Brooklyn redhead with a Coney Island character. Two years later, when she had been the incarnation of Author Elinor Glyn's It, she was the most famed cinemactress in the U. S. She had her name made into a big electric sign for her father to hang outside his Brooklyn restaurant...
...engagement to Cabarctist Harry Richman was announced, overpublicized, abruptly broken. She lost $13,500 gambling at Calneva, Nev., and refused to pay. Finally came the trial of her thieving secretary, Daisy de Boe, who, in the effort to make it seem that her character had suffered from proximity to Cinemactress Bow, revealed that Clara Bow played poker six nights a week, bought herself a $10,000 engagement ring, gave rings and watches to her men friends-of whom Secretary de Boe mentioned Richman, Pierson, Gary Cooper, Lothar Mendez, Rex Bell. A Hollywood publisher of a weekly tabloid, Frederic H. Girnau...
...late Cinemactress Mabel Normand, whose career suffered when her name was mentioned in connection with the mysterious murder of Director William Desmond Taylor, and later when her chauffeur shot Courtland Dines, wealthy stockbroker...
...Cinemactress Mary Miles Minter, whose retirement came also after Director Taylor's murder...