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...ecstatic male huzzas that greeted Rita in Only Angels impressed Columbia. They also impressed Rita, who set out to train herself for stardom. She had never got beyond first-year high school, but under Eddie Judson's guidance she barged into lessons in voice, drama and other useful things. She changed her name, dyed her hair (cinema range: blonde to russet red), slowly sloughed her Spanish looks and pounds. Columbia's new publicity head, Lou Smith, took one look and began talking stardom-if she would do what she was told...
...luscious Lana Turner, this blissful ascent to stardom is not unlike a drastic year-end model change at General Motors. Not long ago the most that was asked of her was to wear a sweater fetchingly. Now M.G.M., after a slight build-up (fatter roles in Ziegfeld Girl and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), has demanded that she act as well as strut. She comes through surprisingly well, although the 1941 Turner may have to undergo a little more streamlining before she can hold the road at high speed...
...Maisie series. The first (Maisie) was bought for Jean Harlow, shelved when she died. Miss Sothern got the part two years ago because she was inexpensive and because she looked to Producer J. Walter Ruben like what he was looking for. Result: a fiscal triumph for M.G.M., stardom for Ann Sothern...
Ginger Rogers clinched her stardom (and won a well-deserved Oscar) by the finest female acting of the year in her role of a spirited Irish girl from the far side of the tracks in Philadelphia. Madly in love with a Quaker aristocrat, Kitty finds that they can be happy anywhere except in the City of Brotherly Love--but the ties of birth and position hold her husband home and create a barrier between them. So Kitty goes out on her own, has a divorce and a baby, meets young doctor James Craig who offers her marriage and security. Then...
...joined famed Miller Brothers' 101 Ranch in Oklahoma. He soldiered in the Philippines, Boer War, China's Boxer Rebellion, returned to become a Texas ranger. Hired by the old Selig movie company to supply horses, extras, atmosphere while on "location," Mix soon passed to stardom and a pedestal as U. S. boyhood's Hero No. 1. In the films he could never smoke, always married a schoolteacher or rancher's daughter, never dallied saloonwards except to shoot villains fairly. In 1932, rolled on and badly injured by Tony the Wonder Horse, Mix (who was only...