Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...duty in England), 5) best actress, Greer Garson (as Mrs. M.), 6) best supporting actress, Teresa Wright. Green-eyed, feather-haired Greer Garson clutched her gold-painted plastic Oscar and silently wept. "This is the most wonderful thing. . . . I feel just like Alice in Wonderland." Other Oscars: to Cinema's man of the year, James Cagney (in Yankee Doodle Dandy); to the best supporting actor, Lieut. Van Heflin (in Johnny Eager). Said a message from Franklin D. Roosevelt: "In total war, motion pictures, like all other human endeavor, have an important part to play in the struggle for freedom...
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...tour was the idea of Theatrical Agent Abe Lastfogel, dollar-a-year head of U.S.O. Camp Shows, who thought a visit from cinema actresses might be good for the morale of U.S. soldiers abroad. The girls traveled light (three suits and two dresses apiece). Their pay: $10 a day for expenses. For two months they toured England and Ireland, giving two or three shows a day, six days a week, for soldiers, sailors, factory workers. Each Sunday they returned to London's Savoy, washed their underwear, flopped into...
...cinema role in an undisclosed movie was Marlene Dietrich's 18-year-old daughter Maria Sieber, whom a photographer caught with mother for the sake of comparison...
Died. Lynne Overman, 55, veteran character actor, cinema's jack-of-all roles; of a heart ailment; in Santa Monica. A onetime jack-of-all-trades (jockey, candy butcher, song plugger, minstrel man), he was a Broadway favorite before he went to Hollywood in 1934, thereafter played more than 50 wry-humored cinema roles -nearly all of them out of the side ot his mouth...