Word: cinemactresses
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...Year's Eve party in an exclusive Cannes nightclub gave birth to a new form of fun: pelting the aging Ago Khan with green cotton balls soaked in champagne. Said the indignant target: "This is terrible. I do not like this." Among the pelters: son Aly Khan and Cinemactress Gene Tierney, his latest Côte d'Azur romance...
Like many another girl anxious to make good in Hollywood, Oscar-winning Cinemactress Anne Baxter has given up things to get ahead. She sacrificed her chestnut hair to become a striking martini blonde; she swallowed her pride and smoked cigars at the suggestion of her publicity man; she betrayed a family secret by feeding a columnist the story that her grandfather, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, wore only a bright red sash on his wedding night. Last week, after six years of marriage, she filed for a divorce from Actor John Hodiak. Grounds: incompatibility...
Married. John Barrymore Jr., 20, son of the late "Great Profile" and onetime Cinemactress Dolores Costello, now himself a fledgling cinemactor (The Big Night, High Lonesome); and Cara Williams, 25, Hollywood starlet; he for the first time, she for the second; after eloping to Las Vegas...
...first trip away from Hollywood in more than ten years, oldtime Cinemactress Marion Davies arrived in Richmond, Va. with her husband Horace Brown to meet his family. One of the points of interest was the First Precinct station, former headquarters for Brown when he pounded a beat on the Richmond force back in the early 1930's. Dressed in diamonds and a brand new, $15,000 mink coat (her old sable wrap, said Brown, was just too heavy "for my little pixie to carry around"), Marion went on a tourof the lockup. At the sight of some 30 smalltime...
...when Silent Cinemactress Janet Gaynor won Hollywood's first Academy Award for her acting in Seventh Heaven, a gold-plated Oscar statuette was worth about $150. The value of most gewgaws has risen since then, but Oscars have outstripped them all. Hollywood publicists have long since discovered that these "noncommercial" citations for artistic merit have a specific box-office value: a mere Oscar nomination can add about $100,000 to a movie's gross. An actual award, if well exploited, may be worth...