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1957 A Crazy, Wonderful, Mixed-Up Year

As they would phrase it in the best Hollywood drawing rooms, anyone for a crazy, wonderful, mixed-up year? How else would you describe 1957—the year the Jayne Mansfields boomed the bust, the Audrey Hepburns busted the boom and success really didn’t spoil anybody. But some of...

Goes To Work With Rock Hudson

Well, it’s nice work, isn’t it! Cuddling with Jennifer Jones, keeping cozy in the blue shadows of the beautiful Dolomite Mountains—these were Rock Hudson’s pleasant assignments for 20th Century-Fox’s movie version of the Ernest Hemingway classic “A Farewell to Arms.” But let’s set the record straight:...

Stars Hollywood Couldn’t Beat

“Stardom doesn’t last,” a new player named Fredric March confided to Photoplay in 1927. Bette Davis put it another way. “I don’t want to own anything I can’t pack in a trunk,” she proclaimed upon first arriving in Hollywood. Yet March, after thirty years, is...