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Word: smartaleck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1928-1928
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...confuse their aversion to a character with their critical judgment of the actor's exposition. Particularly is this true in the case of William Haines. This cinemactor invariably plays the obnoxious, precocious whiffet who upsets plans, causes heartaches by his wilfulness. In this piece he is the smartaleck vaudevillager whose wife becomes a famed cinemactress while he is left in comparative obscurity. He wins her back from a sleek cinemactor (Ricardo Cortez) after slap-stickery and problem-solving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 8, 1928 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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