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...German-born Cinemactress Luise Rainer (The Good Earth, The Great Ziegfeld) became a U. S. citizen. When she returned from Europe recently, she realized how much her new citizenship meant to her, wanted to do something for her adopted country. What she could do best was act. Though she had never appeared on a U. S. stage, she had acted abroad under Max Reinhardt and others...
Died. Henry Tindall Merrill Jr., 11-month-old son of Flier "Dick" Merrill and Cinemactress Toby Wing; of suffocation (he was first thought to have strangled in his bedclothes); in Forest Hills...
...Said German-born Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich: "I'm so proud of my new American citizenship that I'm going to comply with all the laws in this most reasonable of all nations...
...performances by an actor and actress. Nobody was surprised. Academy selections of the best supporting actor and actress met with general approval: 1) Thomas Mitchell, for his whiskey-soaked doctor in Stagecoach; 2) Hattie McDaniel, for her sentimental performance as the hard-boiled mammy in Gone With the Wind. Cinemactress McDaniel was the first Negro to receive the prize. Posthumous were two awards: 1) to the late Douglas Fairbanks Sr. for international services to motion pictures; 2) to the late Playwright Sidney Howard for his Gone With the Wind script. Of the 17 major Oscars handed out, ten were copped...
Sidewalks of London (Mayflower). Cinema, in one of its narcissistic fits, has another look at how a star is born. This time the delivery which occurs among the buskers (London sidewalk entertainers), is less interesting than the star, who is Vivien Leigh. For Cinemactress Leigh Sidewalks of London (made a year or so before Gone With the Wind entered its delayed birth pangs) must have been a dress rehearsal. Liberty (Vivien Leigh), the saucy, thieving cockney orphan, who selfishly climbs to stardom with the help of Charles Laughton, is Scarlett O'Hara's little sister under the grease...