Word: starring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lyrics have lost a good deal of their sparkle, and the book every last shred of its wit. Nor could Bambi Linn (Carousel), however pleasing a dancer, challenge the lustrous memory of the late Marilyn Miller. And though in Willie Howard Sally has a star, it seldom lets him shine. In the role originally played by Leon Errol, Howard talks twaddle that is too refined. Only here & there can he muscle out of the show-with some triumphantly low-down touch, or by singing variations on Look for the Silver Lining...
Perhaps the individual Freshman star, and undoubtedly the greatest tribute to Hanford's coaching charms is defenseman Dick Hausen. Until slightly over three months ago, Hansen had never played lacrosse. Yet in succeeding weeks he throttled the Dartmouth star, and the Exeter attack. Others who have suddenly emerged into athletic stardom are Clark Cowen, Dick Post, and Dick Hudner...
Divorced. By Margaret Sullavan, 38, husky-voiced stage (Voice of the Turtle) and screen (Cry Havoc) star: third husband* Leland Hayward, 46, air-minded, airline-owning (Southwest Airways) Broadway producer and actors' agent; after nearly twelve years of marriage, three children; in Los Angeles...
Died. Tom Breneman (Smith), 47, folksy star of radio's Breakfast in Hollywood; of a heart attack; in Encino, Calif. A onetime pianologuing vaudevillian, he charmed U.S. housewives with homey gallantry and life-of-the-party gags on his immensely popular (estimated audience: ten million), seven-year-old breakfast program...
...almost made it as a movie producer when war came, and squat, shrewd George Glass, known as "an honest pressagent," took options on 30 of the late Ring Lardner's stories. They picked The Big Town for their first picture, changed the title and went looking for a star to fit the script. What comedian could handle Lardner's light touch without seeming all thumbs? Screen Plays eyed radio's Henry Morgan. After reading the story and a 100-page "treatment," Morgan said: "You're the first guys who had the brains to imagine that...