| NIVEN | David -----, suave British actor in Hollywood in the 1940s and 50s (5) |
| ASTA | Top dog in Hollywood in the 1930s |
| GEORGE | First name of a suave British actor |
| EISLER | Hanns, German composer who settled in Hollywood in 1938 (6) |
| ACT | Work in Hollywood, in a way |
| HOGAN | Ben _, American golfer who won nine majors in the 1940s and '50s (5) |
| PORTLAND | Oregon city, noted as a centre for organised crime in the 1940s and '50s and of counterculture in the 1960s and '70s (8) |
| LARUE | Lash lashing his way through Westerns in the forties and fifties |
| THEALBERTHALL | With a similar name to London's iconic venue, this was the main place for entertainment in Australia's capital city in the 1940s and 50s (3,6,4) |
| LANZA | Mario --, American tenor and Hollywood film star of the late 1940s and the 1950s (5) |
| IRONS | British actor in BBC period drama The Borgias, Jeremy ----- (5) |
| FIFTH | - column, enemy infiltrators - Colin -, British actor in Kingsman (5) |
| DANCE | Charles - - -, stately British actor in Game Of Thrones (5) |
| GUYBURGESS | A member of the Cambridge spy ring of the 1940s and '50s (3,7) |
| RANK | J Arthur ___, British industrialist whose companies dominated the British film industry in the 1940s and 1950s |
| JIVERS | Performers of a lively dance of the 1940s and 50s |
| SPIKEJONES | US bandleader of the 1940s and 50s, whose name sounds like a director * (10) |
| JIVE | Lively dance of the 1940s and '50s |
| ALIST | Hollywood in-crowd |
| SUGARRAY | First names of boxers Robinson and Leonard, middleweight world champions in the 1940s and 1980s (5,3) |
