At times when he was confined to bed, he drew, listened to the radio and collected pictures of movie stars around his bed.

Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars and wrote, " The movie isn't as funny or entertaining as Evil Dead II, however, maybe because the comic approach seems recycled ".

This factor is a natural outcome of Hollywood script development which wishes to highlight one or two major characters which can be played by major stars, and thus a good way of marketing the movie is established but that rings false upon examination.

Informal references by the general public and media have used to refer to celebrities as: The stars, sports stars, rock stars, rap stars, supermodels, movie stars, TV stars, radio stars, music stars, superstars, stardom, and media personalities.

While it ’ s true that the top television and film actors have become movie and television stars, musicians and pop singers that become pop stars, or athletes that become sports stars often become celebrities, the other professionals that play a more peripheral role in the entertainment sphere, such as television, music, and film directors and producers, screenwriters, playwrights, and animators are less likely to attain celebrity status ( albeit there are some exceptions, such as directors Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and animator Seth MacFarlane ).

On August 1, 2007 laws were passed banning health care professionals and public figures such as movie stars or pop singers from appearing in advertisements for drugs or nutritional supplements.

* A 2006 movie about Esther and Ahasuerus, entitled One Night with the King, stars Tiffany Dupont and Luke Goss.

In addition, French movie stars began to claim fame abroad as well as at home.

The film established the names of Capra, Columbia Pictures, stars Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, in the movie industry.

By the time the Marxes made their first movie, they were major stars with sharply honed skills, and when Groucho was relaunched to stardom on You Bet Your Life, he had already been performing successfully for half a century.

The movie includes seasoned actors such as Ava Gardner, Burgess Meredith and Eli Wallach and such future stars as Christopher Walken and Jeff Goldblum.

Opened by Charlton Heston and introduced by Frank Sinatra, the ceremony was attended by so many Hollywood stars — said to be more than for any event in history — that one columnist wrote at the time that a bomb in the dining room would have brought about the end of the movie industry.

This film was financed by Archibald MacLeish, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Lillian Hellman, Luise Rainer, Dudley Nichols, Franchot Tone and other Hollywood movie stars, moguls, and writers who composed a group known as the Contemporary Historians.

Amateur actors replace their favorite movie stars in popular movies.

The movie garnered mixed reviews, with the Chicago Tribune rating it one out of four stars and describing Dunst's portrayal of a flight attendant as " cloying.

Like most movie stars of the silent era, Pickford found her career fading as talkies became more popular among audiences.

Maland has identified it as triggering Chaplin's decline in popularity, and writes, " Henceforth, no movie fan would ever be able to separate the dimension of politics from the star image of Charles Spencer Chaplin.

The film, which was the top grossing movie of that year, stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy.

Omaha's Boys Town was made famous by the Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney movie Boys Town.

" Writing for ABC Australia, Megan Spencer called the movie, " menacing, dreamy, exciting " and noted that " it could take you to a deeply emotional place lying dormant in your soul.

Exhibits include actor Spencer Tracy's Academy Award statue that he won for his work portraying Father Flanagan in the movie Boys Town.

* The 1938 movie called Boys Town features actor Spencer Tracy portraying Flanagan.

The movie won the Academy Award for Best Actor ( Maximilian Schell ) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Spencer Tracy ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Montgomery Clift ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Judy Garland ), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White ( Rudolph Sternad, George Milo ), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Costume Design, Black-and-White, Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Picture.

Gracie Allen died in 1964, while watching a Spencer Tracy movie on television.

The historic El Rancho Hotel & Motel has hosted a numerous array of movie stars including John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, Kirk Douglas, Doris Day, Gregory Peck and Burt Lancaster.

The movie is Captains Courageous, starring Spencer Tracy.

Nancy Kelly ( March 25, 1921 – January 2, 1995 ) was an American actress, who was a movie leading lady in the late 1930s, making 36 movies between 1926 and 1977, including portraying Tyrone Power's love interest in the classic Jesse James ( 1939 ), which also featured Henry Fonda, and playing opposite Spencer Tracy in Stanley and Livingstone later that same year.

The comedy movie A Friend Is a Treasure starring Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill revolves its plot around a treasure of millions of United States dollars held by the Japanese military and the last guarding officer, John Fujioka, being unaware of the end of the war.

One can look at many Bud Spencer / Terence Hill collaboration dubs where entire lines of dialogue have been placed into the character's empty expressions, and often the dialogue has entirely different meanings than the original movie had.

In the 1948 movie State of the Union, starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, a southern lady named Lulubelle Alexander orders several Sazerac cocktails.

He also had a brief cameo in the Nostalgia Critic's 200th episode where he starts off chatting idly with the Critic and then leaves the room, whereupon the Critic realizes Spencer put a grenade down the Critic's pants, due to his apparent anger at the Critic's choice of movie to review ( Ponyo ).

Her movie Seducing Charlie Barker ( 2010 ), directed by Amy Glazer was in theather and in 2012, she stars on two news movies Changing Hearts with Brad Johnson and Birds of Paradise with Ryan Guzman, Misha Crosby and Spencer Grammer.

It was published in the United States in 1942 and produced as a movie in 1944 by MGM starring Spencer Tracy.

Spencer, who at his young age had already written for various standup comedians such as Rodney Dangerfield and television shows such as The Facts of Life and One Day at a Time, was unable to sell the script until the mid-1980s, when the release of the fourth Dirty Harry movie Sudden Impact and the popularity of NBC's Dirty Harry-inspired action series Hunter created demand for a satirical police television show.

Her first film of 2011 was The Help, a movie adaption of Kathryn Stockett's 2009 best-selling novel of the same name ; it also starred Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, and Jessica Chastain.

The Milan-born actress starred in " Malaya "( 1949 ), a WWII movie about smuggling and guerilla warfare against the Japanese with Spencer Tracy and Jimmy Stewart " The House on Telegraph Hill ( 1951 ) directed by Robert Wise, and costarring Richard Basehart and William Lundigan.

* Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey ( movie ) by Spencer Wells – PBS and National Geographic Channel, 2003

In the movie Edison, The Man, Spencer Tracy, who played the role of Thomas Edison addresses the radio audience at a dinner being held in Edison's honor.

Around this time, unable to escape the stresses in his life, Morse would regularly pay trips to the movie theater, seeing the new movies of the day and quickly developing idols like Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Orson Welles, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, while Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston and Billy Wilder were his favorite directors.

* Fury ( film ), a 1936 movie starring Spencer Tracy

He also wrote five songs for the 1990 movie Dick Tracy, including " Sooner or Later ( I Always Get My Man )" which won the Academy Award for Best Song.

Ford wanted Tracy for the lead role in his next picture, a prison movie.

Ford convinced Fox that Tracy did not need make-up, and he was cast in the movie.

Tracy played a Portuguese fisherman in an adventure movie based on the novel by Rudyard Kipling.

" Tracy received strong reviews for his performance, and the movie grossed $ 4 million worldwide.

In October of that year, a Fortune magazine survey to find the nation's favorite movie actor listed Tracy in first place.

Boom Town was the last movie Tracy made in which his name did not feature in pole position.

Hepburn greatly admired Tracy, calling him " the best movie actor there was ".

Tracy played a presidential candidate in the movie, which was warmly received.

In June 1955 he was the last remaining star of the studio's heyday, but with his contract up for renewal — Tracy opted to go independent for the first time in his movie career.

Tracy was happy to be working again, but told the press the movie would be his last.

He continues to receive praise from film scholars: critic Leonard Maltin calls Tracy " one of the 20th century ’ s finest actors ", while film historian Jeanine Basinger describes his career as a " golden record of movie achievement ".

The movie tells the story of a daredevil test pilot ( Gable ), his wife ( Loy ), and his best friend ( Tracy ).

Fletcher in the 1990 movie Dick Tracy, TV legend Dick Van Dyke had a villainous role in Matlocks very first regular episode, " The Judge " ( 1986 ).

She has a cameo appearance in the 2007 remake of the original cult-classic Hairspray as a William Morris talent agent, and teamed up with star Nikki Blonsky, who had played the role of Tracy Turnblad in the 2007 movie musical remake, and Marissa Jaret Winokur, who had played the role of Tracy Turnblad in the Broadway musical based on the original 1988 film, to record " Mama I'm a Big Girl Now " for the soundtrack, which is played at the film's end credits.