Word: stardom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. James ("Jimmy") Dunn, 43, now taking a second hitch at cinema stardom in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; and Edna Rush, 37, radio singer (Philadelphia's "Miss Television" of 1931); he for the third time, she for the second; in Philadelphia. Bridal attendant: A Tree's Author Betty Smith...
Jennifer Jones, for another example, is a shy, eager, gifted girl who last year underwent the alarming experience of being rocketed to stardom almost overnight by her performance in The Song of Bernadette. Jennifer was confused and frightened by the fuss made over her. From now on, she realized, people would stare at her, expect something of her. She lacked confidence; she did not dress well; she did not know how to give a party. She did not know how to be photographed, how to make herself up, what dresses to buy, how to talk casually with people...
Captain James Stewart, out of Hollywood stardom and into a quiet Army career eight months before Pearl Harbor, is now head of a Liberator squadron in England, will probably soon be fighting over Europe-the first Hollywood star to engage in regular combat there.*Paul Wittgenstein's piano playing and Max Reiter's conducting will be long remembered in San Antonio musical circles...
...starring role was in Love and Passion (or Slave of the Senses'), which she wrote, directed, and produced herself with a secondhand movie camera in her own Warsaw apartment. Pola claims that the picture so interested Max Reinhardt that he brought her to Germany in 1917. She achieved stardom overnight in Carmen and Passion (with Emil Jannings...
...Pacific. Noel Coward may take a bow for the plot which is much like that of "In Which We Serve." Mary Ann is the heroine of the film and deserves the glory for her modest, but moving role. John Garfield and Harry Carey discreetly shun the light of stardom for her benefit, and rightly...