Word: stardom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Collector is a good grisly thriller that never rises to the challenge of becoming something more. Contrived to leave viewers feeling scared silly rather than profoundly shaken, this tournament of terror spells instant stardom for two relatively uncelebrated English performers, Samantha Eggar and Terence Stamp, although Stamp is seriously miscast. From a taut beginning to a breath-stopping climax, the drama seizes attention, yet misses nearly all the depth and subtlety of the small sinister bestseller on which it is based...
Died. Judy Holliday, 41, dimpled blonde of stage and screen who achieved instant stardom for her classic 1946 portrayal of Born Yesterday's gutter-voiced doxy, was thereafter typed as a comical broad (Phffft, Solid Gold Cadillac, Bells Are Ringing), though she was actually a sensitive, richly talented actress with a rather serious nature forever in search of the right serious role until a throat tumor took her off the boards; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Teresa Stratas is not yet the most famous soprano around, but standing a flat 5 feet, she is surely the smallest. Performance by performance, review by review, she has been inching to stardom. As Cherubino in the Metropolitan Opera's Marriage of Figaro last December and as Liu in Turandot, she won the kind of acclaim that prima donnas are made...
...Babylonian babyhood, who danced out of the Ziegfeld Follies into an endless string of silent-movie romances, most notably Erich Von Stroheim's 1925 The Merry Widow; of a stroke; in Woodland Hills, Calif. In love with her own publicity, she was a prototype and prisoner of stardom-"the girl with the bee-stung lips," who rode around in a gold-fitted Rolls, with sable rugs and liveried footmen, waltzed through four marriages and squandered $3,000,000 in the space of eight years. "I shall dance to my grave," she once said. She never made...
Bright Men. Becoming a first-rate talent agent, he guided names like Jean Arthur, Bette Davis and Errol Flynn to stardom. With Jimmy Stewart he started the phenomenon of stars getting a percentage of the profits. He signed 24-year-old Frank Sinatra with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He began yo-yoing Dore Schary, an obscure writer, around Hollywood and eventually installed him as head...