Word: cinemactresses
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...Cinemactress Joan Crawford, 42, who started out as a Chicago nightclub dancer even before the days of the Charleston, struck a pose for what she figured might be her 8,000th piece of cheesecake art. It had long since become a routine with her, she explained: "I just pull in my tummy, throw out my chest...
...When Cinemactress Ava Gardner stepped from a plane at a Madrid airport, she played a supporting role to a fellow passenger: a timid-looking young man in a brown suit, yellow tie and outsized sun glasses. Ignoring the movie queen, a score of waiting dignitaries and cameramen rushed forward to greet ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia, who had arrived to pay his respects to Francisco Franco...
Boxer-turned-Painter William Grant Sherry, 35, who last fall managed to patch up a loudly publicized spat with his cinemactress wife Bette Davis, 42> was in trouble again. Sherry had noisily broken up a party at the RKO studio, where the cast of The Story of a Divorce had just presented Actress Davis with a monstrous trophy for being "a good egg" (see cut). When he heard that his didoes had prompted highstrung Bette to resume divorce proceedings, the ex-pug unburdened himself to the press: "I'm tired of being pushed around. She was the breadwinner...
...nation's top milliners pooled their talents to pick "the best chapeaued women of America." Among the winners: Mrs. Lauritz Melchior, Cinemactress Gloria Swanson, Mrs. Bennett Cerf, Actress Sarah Churchill, Comedienne Gracie Allen...
...Cinemactress Jane Russell was firm with her financial advisers when they tried to persuade her to think of a portion of her income tax as a "charitable" contribution: "Gentlemen, I give 10% of my salary to the Church. I always will. I think God needs it more than the Government...