Word: stardom
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Loew's State "Shipmates". The ebullient Robert Montgomery achieves stardom...
...beaten by public taste into becoming articulate. The result has been trying. No longer need a person who lisps or has a major impediment in their speech worry about a vocation. They can now go into pictures. And if the infirmament is noticeable enough they are often whisked to stardom...
...about a good woman by Oscar Wilde, is to be modernized by the Idler Club and stylized for the first time. It has been given with much success both as a play since the first decade of this century and as a motion picture which elevated Ronald Colman to stardom. It will be presented on November...
...engagement. It was emphatically denied but criticism stayed bitter, and cinemactors were not surprised for Hope Hampton, not long ago, was just one of them. On the strength of a Texas beauty-contest prize she got her first job in Hollywood as an extra. She soon rose to stardom but the screen could not reveal her flaming orange hair (her one unique characteristic) and she had small success. Wiseacres fell into the way of calling her Hopeless Hampton but that was before she married Jules E. Brulatour, pince-nezed grey-haired film tycoon (Paramount Famous Lasky Corp.), before...
...Squealer (Columbia). Davey Lee who stepped from urchinhood to stardom with Al Jolson is the squealer. His gangster-chief father Charles Hart (Jack Holt) has just killed the leader of a rival gang and is hiding from the dead man's cronies. Davey as Bunny does not know that he has told a mortal enemy the whereabouts of his father. To save her husband from certain death Mrs. Hart (Dorothy Revier) weepingly calls in the Law. Father Hart is caught in time by the police and sentenced to seven years for manslaughter. In prison the sore festers, he is convinced...