Word: cinemactress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Merle Oberon, 68, arrestingly beautiful cinemactress who rose to fame in the '30s and '40s in such classics as Wuthering Heights and The Scarlet Pimpernel; after a stroke; in Los Angeles. Oberon was born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson on the island of Tasmania. Educated in India, she left for England in 1928, worked as an extra and dance hostess until she met and married Film Producer Alexander Korda. Her 1933 portrayal of Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII made her a star. Divorcing Korda in 1945, she went on to play such...
Talk about double-entendre. For the big-production opening and closing numbers of Cinemactress Shirley Mac-Laine's television special, the Bluebells from Paris' famed Lido nightclub were called upon to dance two almost identical versions. Avec bras for U.S. television, a CBS special to be aired May 20. But then, performing before a sophisticated audience at the Lido that included Monaco's Princess Caroline and le Tout-Paris, the chorus danced the same routines sans bras for a later broadcast on European television. Vive les différences...
Married. Kim Novak, 43, sultry cinemactress (Bell, Book and Candle, Picnic); and Veterinarian Robert Malloy, 36, who began taking care of her horses last year; both for the second time; in a mountaintop pine grove near her home in Big Sur, Calif...
Born. To Geraldine Chaplin, 30, Sir Charles Chaplin's cinemactress daughter (Doctor Zhivago, The Three Musketeers), and her lover of eight years, Spanish Film Director Carlos Saura, 43: their first child, a son; in Madrid. Name: Shane...
Such mainstays of the vernacular as tycoon, kudos, pundit and socialite all gained currency from their use in TIME. Our movie reviewers borrowed cinema from the French-and played numerous variations on the theme with cinemactor, cinemactress, cinemoppet, cinemogul. The word newsmagazine was a TIME creation...