Word: star-struck
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...chilling cries-the offscreen screams of the U.S. nurses on Bataan surrendering to the Japanese, which were a high point of the stage play. The cryless Cry Havoc is a less sensational So Proudly We Hail (TIME, Sept. 27). It is harsher and more perfervid than Paramount's star-struck version of nurses on Bataan...
Like many another star-struck adolescent, blonde Betty Hansen knew what she wanted when she left Lincoln, Neb. recently for Hollywood. She "wanted to get into the movies." Last week Miss Hansen told a Los Angeles grand jury her version of her career...
...most provocative patriotism in the world wear your stars and stripes "undercover"! Let a star-struck slip skitter out from under your navy blue suit. Wear a boldly striped petticoat with a witty bombardment of stars on its bodice. The whole idea's as fresh and vivid as the red carnation in your best bean's buttonhole. It's as deliciously daring as the gusty winds of March will let you be. Macy...
...role of an aging matinee idol whose charms are fatal to impressionable clubwomen, gushing schoolgirls. To his leading lady (Bette Davis, happily restored to comedy) he is a lovable fraud, fond of voicing his feelings in the ringing phrases of Shakespeare and the once-aboard-the-lugger playwrights. To star-struck Olivia de Havilland he is unutterably wonderful. When Olivia's infatuation blinds her to the worth of her suitor (Patric Knowles), Idol Howard decently decides to disillusion her. The plan for such a procedure, his dresser (Eric Blore) agrees, is neatly outlined in one of his early triumphs...
...authors (Gene Towne, Graham Baker, Gene Fowler), borrowing the Connecticut Yankee formula, have brought it aptly up to date. Cantor is a star-struck autograph hunter on his way to Hollywood for a rubberneck vacation among the famous faces. He stumbles on the desert location of a cinema company making an episode from the Arabian Nights, becomes an extra, falls asleep in the jar reserved for Ali Baba...