Word: cinemactor
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...movie set in Rome saw some off-camera soap opera when high-strung Cinemactress Shelley (A Place in the Sun) Winters, in the midst of a scene, spotted her estranged husband, Cinemactor Vittorio (Rhapsody) Gassman on the set with the other woman, Italian Actress Anna Maria Ferrero. Shelley tossed a hand mirror at Gassman, clawed his face, was aiming a roundhouse right at Anna Maria when Actress Winters' coworkers corralled her long enough for Gassman and friend to escape...
Married. Elizabeth Montgomery, 20, daughter of Robert Montgomery, veteran cinemactor turned television producer (Robert Montgomery Presents) and White House TV adviser; and Frederic Gallatin Cammann, 24, TV casting director; in Manhattan...
...commercials for Oldsmobile, which paid $275,000 to sponsor the program, were as bad as TV's worst: guided by Cinemactor Paul Douglas, who used to be a radio announcer, the plugs for the sponsor were overdone and oversold. Complained Daily Variety next day: "The industry . . . found itself demeaned by an overanxious huckster . . . The real blind fault lies with the film biz, which lets an outsider take over the Academy Awards on the world's best-selling medium. Oscar night should find pictures being sold-not cars oversold ... If the film biz should continue its stupid failure...
...Hollywood, Cinemactor Gene Autry, who in his western film fare for kiddies regularly shoots or slugs it out successfully with mustached villains, became the target of a $10,000 damage suit. A clock salesman accused Gene of beating him up "wantonly, maliciously and outrageously" after a street-corner discussion involving their horseless carriages...
...first production, Madam, Will You Walk, the Phoenix hired Broadway's Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, paid them $100 a week apiece. The play ran successfully for six weeks, after a capital outlay of $15,000. Next, Houghton and Hambleton put on Shakespeare's Coriolanus, with Cinemactor Robert Ryan (salary: $100 a week). Again, for $15,000, the Phoenix had a fine run. Golden Apple is a more ambitious show. It cost $75,000, but a similar production on Broadway would have run to $250,000. The Phoenix still pays its top people only $100, gets along with...