Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Star Is Born. Miss Kerr was bought but she still had to be sold-to her employers. The obstetrics of star-bearing often seem to have as little apparent relation to the finished star as forceps have to a baby. How Miss Kerr came into her first Hollywood role is a fair sample...
...hero's flagrantly libertine outlook would ruin him forever as a great lover. The book's big sales and a denatured script brought Gable around. Metro decided to create its own star (Metro can create a star overnight as surely as Hormel creates Spam). Why not Deborah Kerr? But the producer, Arthur Hornblow Jr., was still worried. The Hucksters, he pointed out, is budgeted at $2,500,000 and Gable is one of the most valuable properties in pictures; why risk a new girl? The High Council compromised. It scheduled Miss Kerr tentatively for the role, pending...
...self-destructive. Thenceforth she would be bombarded by the ultraviolet and infrared rays peculiar to Hollywood, and the anthropophagous attentions most peculiar of all to MGM. She might imagine M-G-M saying, like the doctor in James Thurber's cartoon: You're not my patient, Miss Kerr, you're my meat...
...them audience. In fact, he had arranged a little intime luncheon in the fourth floor executive dining room, next to the gymnasium and steam room. The hard, magnificent old man was graciously interested in Tony's war record. He was even more interested, if less conversational about Miss Kerr. But the demitasses were hardly drained before things began to hum at the studio. Deborah knew that she had passed Test...
...Team." She was taken down to Publicity and introduced to Melvina Pumphrey (Mel is very good with new girls). It would be Mel's job to help Miss Kerr "adjust" to a new way of life. Mel would be her immediate contact with the public and press. She would instruct Deborah in what to say and what not to say. She would be present at every interview and would report to the studio on what had been said. Deborah and Tony were reminded, in velvet tones, that they were "on the team" now and were expected to "play ball...