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...Warner's son-in-law and the studio's hard-driving TV chief. The cowboys' beef: the usual Warner Bros, contract, which binds screen hopefuls to the studio for seven years at a predetermined salary, often prevents them from reaping the customary rewards of stardom, e.g., sharing in "residual" rights from rerun TV shows. If the actors make personal appearances, Warners pockets 90% to 100% of their earnings. The studio may cancel the contract at will; the actor has no option to cancel or renew...
Died. Paul Douglas, 52, sometime professional football player and radio announcer turned actor, who vaulted to Hollywood stardom (A Letter to Three Wives, Executive Suite) through his Broadway portrayal of the bumptious racketeer in Born Yesterday; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
Lola has behind her countless different jobs-radio actress, stenographer, switchboard operator, photographic model. She says that she never really wanted to pay the price that Hollywood demands for stardom ("You become everybody's personal property''), but by 1946 she was there, like a thousand others, sitting around on sets, earning little more than the right to join the extras union. She finally landed a meaty role in Champion, with Kirk Douglas and Ruth Roman. The picture, says Lola, "set up Kirk and Ruth. Afterwards. I couldn't get a job. I went to New York...
Blackboard Jungle (at the Brattle, today and tomorrow only). This is the juvenile delinquency classic that helped Sidney Poitier and Glenn Ford to stardom...
...feud started two years ago, when Senator Smith, annoyed at the Air Force's failure to promote her administrative assistant from colonel to brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve, retaliated by blocking the promotion of Cinemactor James Stewart, much-decorated World War II bomber colonel, to Reserve stardom. In defending the Air Force decisions, O'Donnell got Senator Smith unforgivingly sore...