Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sneaking feeling this thing may be just an illusion," he says. If the "illusion" lasts until fall, he wants to try serious acting on radio, stage & screen. Like many another comic, Hayes is a frustrated "heavy...
Died. Charles Butterworth, 46, stage & screen comedian whose hesitant, apologetic manner helped lift Hollywood comedy out of its custard-pie trough; in an automobile accident near Los Angeles, when his British roadster jumped a curb, struck a lamp post, left 180 feet of skid marks. Originally a newspaperman (said his kindest city editor: "Charlie is worth every bit of his $26 a week"), he got his theatrical start with a Rotary Club lecture in J. P. McEvoy's Americana, later became famed for his deadpan burlesque of the eager, mousy little guy he really...
Died. John Logic Baird, 58, a canny Scot who turned an uncanny trick in 1924 when he switched on a homemade gadget (set up on a washstand in a garret over a flower shop), a moment later saw the first picture ever televised flicker on a screen two yards away; after influenza; in Bexhill, Sussex...
Born. To Pat O'Brien, 46, soft-hearted tough guy of the screen, and Eloise Taylor O'Brien, 43, onetime Broadway actress: their first child of their own (three adopted), a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Kathleen Bridget. Weight...
...turn leads a band of Mormons towards the Promised Land. Histrionically, the battle is a draw. Typical O'Brien low-blow: "Why does your nose run when your feet get wet? Your feet don't run when your nose gets wet." Typical Beery haymaker: bulging the screen full of a face as massively seamed as a relief map. There is also an Indian raid, during which Miss O'Brien routs a brave with a peashooter. Because enough people enjoy that one, Bad Bascomb is already on the lists of box-office bests...