Word: stardom
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...that she's fed, clothed, eats on time and gets to her appointments. Shirley's the one out there making it, not me." Non-Chauvinist Conrad adds: "If you are a man-and a mature man-you do everything to maintain your wife's stardom...
...very small but, springing, perhaps, from no more than a wayward romantic impulse) it still seems sad to see the studios die. Making myths, developing dreams, they became mythic themselves, 'forming the tangible, actually existing center of a new dream: the dream of Hollywood, of stardom, of a tacky but imaginatively potent 'glamour. The reality on which that dream was based may often have been cheap and false, but sometimes it was not. Like a popular song, like a mass-printed poem, like a B-movie, it at least provided something to dream about; in regard to dreams, something...
...Howard Hughes caper has blasted Nina van Pallandt off to stardom. The Danish singer and actress has done her fetching thing on the Dick Cavett and David Frost shows. She has been approached by four major record companies and two film companies. Nightclub offers have been piling in from Canada, the Bahamas, Florida, Mexico, San Francisco and Las Vegas (including one from a Hughes-owned hotel). "She's had more exposure in one week than Tom Jones has had in his whole career," bubbles Nina's manager, John Marshall. "Why, she got 5,000 letters and telegrams last...
Eventually she landed the part that finally made her a movie star-Alice in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. With stardom, there quickly came a reputation for star temperament and all the late arrivals, weeping fits and temper tantrums that go with it. "Like any strong woman," shrugs Producer Frankovich, "she's got fangs." The director who seems to have felt them most keenly is Preminger, himself no Teddy bear. On the set of Such Good Friends, they clashed over her lateness, his penchant for exacting retakes (58 on one scene), and her refusal to pose completely in the nude...
Died. Dame Gladys Cooper, 82, exemplar of British dignity on stage and screen; of pneumonia; in Henley-on-Thames, England. A beautiful chorine who became World War I's foremost pinup girl by shamelessly exposing her ankles, Dame Gladys early turned to the legitimate stage. After achieving stardom in The Second Mrs. Tanqueray in 1922, she managed London's Playhouse Theater. Planning to spend three weeks in Hollywood making Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 melodrama Rebecca, she remained for nearly three decades, playing in such movie classics as Now, Voyager and Separate Tables. Then she became the matriarch...