“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...
You don’t catch John Wayne’s family singing the “location blues” when he’s off making a picture—whether it be “Donovan’s Reef” or his forthcoming “McLintock!” For where he goes they go, and love it—as witness his wife Pilar playing with their baby, John Ethan. But nobody...