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Article: Tinseltown expose.(Hollywoodland)(Movie review)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- October 31, 2006
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TELEVISION CEMENTED stardom in the 1950s for many celebrities of radio, vaudeville and motion pictures--Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, even Alfred Hitchcock. The first TV star created by the infant medium was George Reeves. A capable actor with a Roman jaw, cast as Stuart Tarleton in Gone With the Wind (1939) and consigned to mostly forgotten pictures in the late 1940s, Reeves was offered the lead in a syndicated television program that was without sponsorship until two years after filming was completed. Take the money, his agent advised; nobody will ever see the silly thing anyway.
It was a sensible argument that could not have proved more wrong. Adventures of ...