Word: stardom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down the line. Meredith is only Meredith, but it fits. Dulcie Gray as his wife mixes helplessness with devotion and comes up with the correct martyrdom. But little black-haired Barbara White, who is on screen for ten minutes as the flyer's wife, is on her way to stardom. A mobile face that coordinates magically with her lines enables Miss White to strip everything unessential and distracting from the heart of her role. Kieron Moore stalks sulkily as her moody, proud, and dangerous husband...
...hang over. The press all over the U.S. was screaming "dope" scandal and hinting broadly that more sensations were to come. Clearly, a serious industrial crisis was in the making. The problem was much bigger than salvaging a valuable property named Mitchum, who had been nursed to stardom since he clicked with moviegoers in G.I. Joe. It was even bigger than protecting some $5,000,000 riding on three unreleased Mitchum films...
...individual Freshman star, and undoubtedly the greatest tribute to Hanford's coaching charms is defenseman Dick Hausen. Until slightly over three months ago, Hansen had never played lacrosse. Yet in succeeding weeks he throttled the Dartmouth star, and the Exeter attack. Others who have suddenly emerged into athletic stardom are Clark Cowen, Dick Post, and Dick Hudner...
...verge of movie stardom (as Joan of Arc), a mining town proletariette (Valli) dies of overwork and the effects of her impoverished childhood. A publicity genius (Fred Mac Murray), who has long loved her but, with a pressagent's shyness, dared not speak of the matter, takes her body back to the home town for burial. He is angry, and miserable, because the picture for which this unknown gave her life will not be released. He bribes every church in town to ring its bells, without surcease or mercy, for three days & nights, in her memory. The ensuing uproar...
Except for his good looks, which are considerably above average, Gregory Peck is an average young man who has made a fairly fast and dizzying jump to movie stardom. Since his arrival in Hollywood four years ago, he has carried a large part of the burden of an aggregate Hollywood investment of some $23 million, and has been instrumental in grossing a total of at least $50 million. With his ninth-and newest-picture, The Paradine Case (see below), he is in such demand that he has had to turn down starring roles in some 30 other pictures, most...