Nominations for the Hollywood Walk of Fame will open in April The deadline for submission is Friday, May 27, at 12 noon. All nominations will be considered at the annual Walk of Fame Committee meeting to be held in June. The committee will make selections for the year The committee will select approximately 30 names for insertion into the Walk. Nomination of an individual or group must be approved by the Walk of Fame Committee, sometimes requiring several annual nominations before a nominee is selected to receive a star.
As a result, messy divorces, womanizing behavior, or anything illegal could have a serious impact on their careers. One of the many responsibilities of Old Hollywood film stars was that they had to cater to the press. Staged photo ops were inevitable, and movie stars were expected to shine when the occasion arose. Sham dates, as they were called back then, were a way for a studio to drum up publicity for upcoming pictures featuring their stars.
Rock Hudson was forced to marry his agent's secretary, Phyllis Gates. It wasn't until he publicly announced his AIDS diagnosis that he revealed he was homosexual. Jean Harlow was told that becoming a wife would alter her sex appeal, and, due to the morality clause in her contract with MGM, the studio was allowed to deny her marriage to William Powell.
Actresses knew that becoming pregnant was against most studios' rules, and, as a result, some women, like Ava Gardner, had abortions to prevent penalties. Joan Crawford and Elizabeth Taylor both adopted children, as it allowed them to continue working, while Loretta Young kept her pregnancy and birth a secret from the public and later adopted her biological daughter , Judy Lewis.
Some stars, like Elizabeth Taylor, went the extra mile when it came to promoting films. The MGM star's first marriage to Conrad Hilton was a widely publicized event that was conveniently timed with the release of her new movie , Father of the Bride, and was paid for by the studio. They forced her to return to work a short 24 hours after their wedding.
No honeymoon for the happy couple. Marlene Dietrich was one of the earliest known film stars told to lose weight , and the pressure for actresses to look a certain way hasn't gone away. As a child star, Judy Garland was force-fed speed and encouraged to smoke cigarettes to curb her appetite. Studios would place actresses on strict diets if they gained weight.
Marlene Dietrich followed a diet of broth, cottage cheese, and toast dictated by her studio. Starlets often exercised to maintain their physiques, although it wasn't common to talk about it back then. Katharine Hepburn favored tennis and swimming, while Marilyn Monroe was one of the first actresses to regularly lift weights. Minimal child labor laws meant that studios could require children to work just as much as their adult counterparts.
For Judy Garland, that meant working six days per week and up to hour shifts filled with singing and dancing. She called in sick 16 days while working on Meet Me in St. Louis, and production on The Pirate was delayed by the actress. Shirley Temple learned from a young age that it was never a good idea to be unprofessional on set. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble," she wrote in her book Child Star. Studios often appointed assistants to their actors, who would advise and take care of the stars.
They would also report back to the studio and essentially act as spies. Judy Garland was reportedly devastated when she found out her nanny had been betraying her. As studios strived to present their actors and actresses in the best possible light, rumors or scandals could jeopardize a career. Actress Clara Bow was one of the most famous women in the s, until her rumored promiscuity caused her to lose her contract with Paramount.
Bazaar Bride. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. Goodbye to All That. Bettmann Getty Images. They had to sign long-term contracts. By the s there were signs of change. While idealism had provided escape from the Great Depression and World War II, s moviegoers were developing a taste for realism. Moreover, saw the first edition of Confidential , a Hollywood scandal sheet fed by L. Vic Mature: Remember that cute trick you dated?
By the s, studios could no longer afford exclusive stables of contract actors. And once formed, stars were free agents. Many Hollywood stars now aspired to be accomplished actors rather than typecast personas. Moreover, the nature of bankable personas began to change. Reflecting the cynicism and rebellion of the late s and the s, stars with anti-hero personas—e.
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