Word: starring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Floating Rose. One studio that is less desperate than most is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; that is partly because M-G-M has already turned up a jewel of great price, a true star sapphire. She is Elizabeth Taylor...
...same with the male animal-even with such solid 40-plus examples as Clark Gable (a big star since 1932), Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Jimmy Cagney, Gary Cooper. These veterans are still expert performers, but their days as high-voltage box-office attractions are numbered...
...Burning Glass. In Hollywood, which has long since proved its theory that even a flea can be taught to act a little, Elizabeth Taylor is a sure star of the future. Never has there been a time of such opportunity. For as age has dulled dozens of bright stars, custom has staled scores more. The public-though still attentive to such screen personalities as Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, Errol Flynn, Irene Dunne, Greer Garson, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Mickey Rooney, Loretta Young-no longer rushes by the millions to see a picture merely because one of them...
...that she was chucking the movies, then brushed it skeptically aside. Next day, in an interview in Rome with the New York Post Home News's Earl Wilson, Actress Bergman backtracked a little, but left it plain that she was fed up with the life of a movie star...
...course, [the press treatment] was my fault, too. You try to keep things quiet. The thing is that a movie star is a ridiculous commercial product, and the public tells you what to do. One women's group wrote me that I had once been a perfect example for mothers and now I was a horrible example. They saw me in Joan of Arc and thought I was a saint. I'm not. I'm just a human being...