Word: idol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage, Russell found that his new guise could be a show-stopper too. In a bemused, horn-rimmed way, Russell has become something of a matinee idol, has done for the morale of the spectacle-wearing bookworm what Ezio Pinza did for the middle-aged man. His television appearances have brought him fan mail from all over the country. Grateful mothers often write to thank him for helping reconcile their teen-age sons to glasses...
Married. Jean Simmons, 21, doe-eyed British cinemactress (Ophelia in Olivier's Hamlet); and Stewart Granger, 37, No. 1 movie idol of British bobby-soxers; she for the first time, he for the second; in Tucson, Ariz...
Born. To Ezio Pinza, 58, matinee-idol basso of the Metropolitan Opera, Broadway (South Pacific), and Hollywood, and second wife Doris Leak Pinza, 32, ex-dancer: their third child (his fourth), second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Gloria. Weight...
During his early years in Hollywood, anyone who had predicted that he would end up as the rootin'-tootin' idol of U.S. children would have been led instantly off to a headshrinker.* Boyd, an Ohio-born laborer's son, went to California in 1915 because he yearned for money, fame, pretty girls and fun. He was a husky, handsome, good-natured youth with wavy platinum hair, and he hoped the motion-picture business would provide all. It did. He married a Boston heiress, whom he met while toiling as the chauffeur of a for-hire car; when...
...mind which has caused Boyd to cease all personal appearances at which his "friends" are charged an admission. But part of it is shrewd business practice. Boyd has no illusions that his popularity can continue at its present rate and he hopes to convert Hoppy from a television idol into a brand name before the roof falls...