Word: standin
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...when Japan's top actor chose him as leading lady. This honor earned him the right at last to use his family's famous stage name. He was at the height of his fame a decade later when he took up with the shapely, silk-skinned movie standin, Toshiko, and made her his mistress. Nizaemon's adoring public could bear up under that. But when the Great Lover married his hussy and began uxoriously washing diapers and doing kitchen chores to please her, his prestige began to wane. Only his relatives and most ardent disciples, paying their...
Blood flowed again last week on Lunga beach. "I was just standin' there," a stricken soldier moaned to his seconds, "when all of a sudden...
...have missed the funniest incident in the civilian war effort (Driver Durante, trying his best to keep proper control of the brake and '"exhilarator,'" is nudged so far over by "Share-the-ride-Schwartz" and other multiplying members of the pool that finally '"I'm standin' on da corner waitin' for a streetcar...
...princess, so he invites her to the White House. When Pilot Cummings realizes that his marriage will mean the loss of his U.S. citizenship, a quarrel develops. President Roosevelt is treated with Warners' usual restraint; only his shoulder appears in the picture. But Fala (played by a standin) carries notes, and at length his invisible master stoops from the height of history to play Mr. Fixit to the romance...
...party and ended as a brawl, but this Hollywood party was different: the actors behaved, the employes behaved like actors. About 4 a.m. at Errol Flynn's 32nd birthday party, the butler, lent for the occasion by Barbara Mutton, squared off with the actor's secretary and standin, who had once been a butler himself. The Hutton butler, said the Flynn standin, swung first. The Hutton butler, from his hospital bed, said no. The Flynn stand-in said the Hutton butler had called him a name. The Hutton butler remembered little. Flynn stood up for his standin, Miss...