Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brother as much as he does his wife but can forgive neither of them for their sin. Mary Philbin, garbed in tight and tenuous garments, is almost equally competent to express her perplexity in the choice between loyalty and passion. The younger brother to the hunchback is a handsome cinemactor of Valentinoesque appearance; his name is Don Alvarado...
Despite the romantic frenzy of this tragedy, whose faults are far more obvious in synopsis than in cinematic entirety, The Last Command is indubitably a powerful film. Clumsy-faced, blacksmith-muscled, thick-fingered Emil Jannings, the thoroughly unhandsome hero, is the most finished, the most subtle cinemactor in the U.S. He does everything slowly; smiles break across his face like a gradual sunrise, his sorrows have accumulated intensity. In this picture, he is ably supported by lords, soldiers, peasants, and most notably by Evelyn Brent who is the heroine...
...actuality, Cinemactor Jannings was no cousin of the Tsar before he appeared upon the screen. He was a member of famed Max Reinhardt's theatrical troupe, played Shakespearean repertory as now presented in Manhattan. He was persuaded to appear in the cinema by famed director Ernst Lubitsch, a onetime stock-company companion, then with a German film company. He has since pleased with performances in Faust, The Way of All Flesh, Variety...
...Lima, Peru, a large bull looked about him and saw Luis Romero, Peruvian cinemactor, demonstrating his horsemanship. With a loud bellow, the bull made for Luis Romero, flipped him off his horse, pawed and gored him until men arrived who rescued Luis Romero and tried to calm the bull...
Divorced. Mrs. Marilynn Miller Pickford, 29, famed musical comedy actress, from Jack Pickford, 31, cinemactor and brother of Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks; in Versailles. She charged desertion, incompatibility. Her first husband was Actor Frank Carter who died in 1920 in an automobile accident. Said she last June: "Paris divorces are easy to get!" French legal circles were vexed, the Pickford divorce suit was deferred to October...