Word: cinemactor
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...Vatican confirmed that mellowing (57) Cinemactor Gary (Return to Paradise) Cooper, previously an Episcopalian, became a Roman Catholic early in April. Glowed his Roman Catholic wife Veronica, married to Coop for 26 years: "He's very happy about...
Died. James Gleason, 72, wispy, slang-spouting cinemactor who inevitably turned up as the prizefight manager, the private eye, the top sergeant or the political crony in scores of films, from Here Comes Mr. Jordan to The Last Hurrah, onetime Broadway playwright who hit the big time in 1925 with Is Zat So? (618 performances), later wrote plays with fat cast lists in order to provide work for actors; of chronic asthma; in Hollywood...
...attention. I never had much success talking with them. The thing is, it burns me up when they won't listen to me." To the four Crosby cutups (Gary, 25, Twins Philip and Dennis, 24, Lindsay, 21), Dad's mournful tune came as a stunning surprise. Said Cinemactor Lindsay: "I don't know why he made the statement. No one meant to do any wrong, and we're all working hard...
Died. Grant Withers, 55, once popular cinemactor who in 1930 eloped with 17-year-old Loretta Young, eventually chalked up five wrecked marriages, hit the bottle ("They threw a net over me and hauled me to a sanitarium"), was reclaimed by his friend John Wayne, who got him parts in Wayne pictures (Wake of the Red Witch, Fort Apache); by his own hand (an overdose of barbiturates); in North Hollywood...
...Hollywood's family trees. There, for example, in the splendid boarding house of Hotel Magnate Conrad Hilton was Cineminx Eva Gabor, sister of Hilton's ex-wife Zsa Zsa, whose former husband, Cinemenace George Sanders, had recently moved out with his new bride Benita Hume, widow of Cinemactor Ronald Colman. Eva, it so happens, is a former potential step-aunt of Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor (through Liz's first marriage to Hilton's playboy son Nicky), thus also ex-step-great-aunt, two marriages removed, of another guest in the Casa, fledgling Cinemogul Mike Todd...