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  WAMPAS Baby Stars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers in the United States, which honored thirteen young women each year who they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom.
The awards were not given in 1930 and 1933 and ended after 1934 due to objections from the movie studios because of its independence.
The Wampas Baby Stars: A Biographical Dictionary, 1922-1934 (ISBN 0786407565) includes biographies of every actress selected, including lists of films in which she appeared.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/WAMPAS_Baby_Stars   (482 words)

  
 Jean Arthur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Whatever self-confidence she may have built up was dashed when she was removed from the starring role of “Temple of Venus” (1923) after a few days of shooting.
She signed to star in the 1946 Broadway play ‘Born Yesterday’ – only to succumb to a debilitating case of stage fright, forcing the producers to replace her at virtually the last moment with Judy Holliday.
Retiring for good in 1972, she retreated to her ocean home in Carmel, California, steadfastly refusing interviews until her resistance was broken down by the author of a book on her one-time director Frank Capra (she once famously said that she’d rather have her throat slit than do an interview).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean_Arthur   (809 words)

  
 Wampas Baby Stars
Wampas stood for the Western Association Of Motion Picture Advertisers, and every year from 1922 to 1934 this association gave awards to female starlets (known as "Wampas Baby Stars") who showed promise.
The 1925 Wampas Baby Stars are Betty Arlen, Violet Avon, Olive Borden, June Marlowe, Ena Gregory, Anne Cornwall, Madeline Hurlock, Natalie Joyce, Joan Meredith, Evelyn Pierce, Dorothy Revier, Duane Thompson, and Lola Todd.
Eleven of the thirteen Wampas Stars of 1925.
www.dspears.com /junepix/annex/wampas.html   (940 words)

  
 Gloria Stuart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She was also selected as one of the thirteen WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1932.
As a glamorous blonde, she was quickly cast in a variety of films and became a favourite of director James Whale, appearing in his films The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933).
By the end of the decade she had starred in more than forty films, including Roman Scandals (1933) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) but had not become a major star.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gloria_Stuart   (519 words)

  
 Learn Moore
Also, as a big-name star, she would be called upon to give all sorts of interviews and help with film publicity.
Colleen was the eighth star to put her handprints in cement at the Chinese Theatre, preceeded only by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge, Norma Shearer, Harold Lloyd, William S. Hart and Tom Mix (and Toby!).
Clara was also achieving fame of her own by this point (she was a Wampas Baby Star in 1924) so claims that she needed the close ups aren't really valid.
www.centurybaby.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Learnm.html   (2637 words)

  
 The Very Best Books : The Wampas Baby Stars: A Biographical Dictionary, 1922 - 1934   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Wampas Baby Stars: A Biographical Dictionary, 1922 - 1934
To be selected a Wampas Baby Star soon became a much-sought honor-a ticket to recognition and publicity in those days before the Academy Awards.
As a longtime researcher of the Wampas phenomenon - the yearly selection of worthy would-be starlets 1922-1934 - I was actually prepared to dislike this book by Roy Liebman.
www.elise.com /store/0786407565/The_Wampas_Baby_Stars_A_Biographical_Dictionary_1922-1934.html   (302 words)

  
 Joan Blondell
She was one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1931.
She died of leukemia in Santa Monica, California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Joan Blondell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6309 Hollywood Boulevard.
www.knowledgefun.com /book/j/jo/joan_blondell.html   (446 words)

  
 Fay Wray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Wray's family lived in predominantly Mormon communities in Alberta, Arizona and Salt Lake City, Utah before settling in Los Angeles, California, where she got her first film work in Hal Roach comedy shorts and in low-budget westerns in the early 1920s.
Wray gained media attention when she was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926, which landed her a contract at Paramount Pictures.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Fay Wray has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6349 Hollywood Blvd. She received a posthumous star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto on June 5, 2005.
www.33beat.com /Fay_Wray.html   (675 words)

  
 WAMPAS
Although definitely not babies, they were nonetheless commonly referred to, and widely promoted as, "WAMPAS BABY STARS".
Many WAMPAS Baby Stars achieved top stardom: Clara Bow, Joan Crawford, Dolores Del Rio, Janet Gaynor, Ginger Rogers, Fay Wray and Loretta Young to name a few.
The remaining 'Baby Stars' went slowly (or sometimes quickly) into obscurity.
daleweberbooks.com /WAMPAS.htm   (161 words)

  
 Allure
She was also a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1922 (see Evelyn Brent for more information on WAMPAS Baby Stars).
Evelyn was a WAMPAS Baby Star for 1923.
Madge was specially chosen by Fox as the star of their first-ever talkie, Mother Knows Best (1928) and at the height of her fame she lived in 'The Cedars', a replica of a Spanish castle.
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 Sally Rand - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
During the 1920s, she acted on stage and appeared in silent films; Cecil B. deMille gave her the name Sally Rand.
She was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1927.
After the introduction of sound film, she became a dancer, known for the fan dance, which she popularized starting at the Paramount Club.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Sally_Rand   (244 words)

  
 Bessie Love   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
She was selected one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1922.
She made a small comeback in the 1980s with roles in Ragtime and in Reds.
She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6777 Hollywood Blvd.
www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/b/be/bessie_love.html   (195 words)

  
 Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Motion Picture Publicists Association named her one of its Baby Stars of 1940 [2].
Ironically, in the very year she left Warners, the twenty-one-year-old actress received the highest ranking in Quigley's "Future Star" poll of motion picture exhibitors [4].
[2] Wampas (the Western Association of Motion Pictures Advertisers) had in 1922 established the practice of selecting every year a number of starlets "who during the past year [had] shown the most talent and promise for eventual stardom." These became the famous Wampas Baby Stars.
www.picturegoer.com /biography.html   (1109 words)

  
 The Stagecoach Inn
Versatile blond leading lady born Dorthea Sally Eilers on December 12, 1908 in New York she studied to be a dancer before heading to Hollywood in her teens.
She was married to Hoot Gibson in 1930, but the union fell apart as her star soared and his diminished.
While never a major star, Eilers retained her popularity into the late 1930s, tackling such tricky roles as the Aimee Semple McPherson-ish heroine in 1938's Tarnished Angels.
www.stagecoachmuseum.org /html/eilers.html   (162 words)

  
 WAMPAS Baby Stars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The WAMPAS Baby Stars, a yearly selection of 13 promising starlets, was made by The Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers.
An last and probably least: In 1956, a group of veteran stars --- among them WAMPAS Baby Ginger Rogers --- chose a bevy of beauties supposed to be known as --- The Wampas baby Stars.
Merrick was not a WAMPAS winner, but was one of the starlets selected by the Motion Picture Publicists Association in 1940.
www.surfnetinc.com /chuck/ladies88.htm   (1043 words)

  
 Movie Info for Young and Beautiful on MSN Movies
Produced by small-scale Mascot Pictures, this behind-the-scenes look at a now forgotten annual Hollywood event, the WAMPAS Baby Star selection, starred former MGM light leading man William Haines in his penultimate film role.
Well cast as Bob Preston, the brash publicity director of Superba Pictures, Haines will stop at nothing to make his girlfriend, WAMPAS Baby Star June Dale (Judith Allen) a movie queen, never mind if the result should strain their relationship.
While Bob pursues June, the other 12 WAMPAS babies get to join vaudeville comedians Shaw and Lee in a rousing production number to J.
entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=180022   (334 words)

  
 WAMPAS Baby Stars - A Biographical Dictionary, 1922-1934 by Liebman, Roy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
WAMPAS Baby Stars - A Biographical Dictionary, 1922-1934 by Liebman, Roy
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WAMPAS Baby Stars - A Biographical Dictionary, 1922-1934
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 Silent Era : People : Actresses : Mary Brian
On loan-out to M-G-M, she was given the starlet treatment with some gorgeous close-ups as the college belle opposite William Haines’ conceited freshman in Brown of Harvard (1926).
With her pals Fay Wray and Janet Gaynor, she was voted a Wampas Baby of 1926.
While not one of the silent era's biggest, she was one of its longest surviving and more fondly remembered stars.
www.silentera.com /people/actresses/Brian-Mary.html   (513 words)

  
 Entertainment Insiders
She was one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars.
The WAMPAS Baby Stars were promising actresses who were given tons of publicity from the studios in hopes of grooming them into major stars.
Peabody and the Mermaid" starring William Powell, "Three Faces of Eve" starring Joanne Woodward, "Elmer Gantry" with Burt Lancaster and Shirley Jones, "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes," the TV series "The Blue Knight" and "Eight is Enough."
www.einsiders.com /features/columns/july03obituaries.php   (5655 words)

  
 Fay Wray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
They lived in Arizona and Salt Lake City, Utah before settling in California.
Wray gained media attention when she was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926.
She is best remembered for her role as the blonde seductress of a gigantic, prehistoric gorilla in the classic horror/adventure film King Kong (1933).
www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/f/fa/fay_wray.html   (268 words)

  
 Wampas Baby Stars; Author: Liebman, Roy; Hardback; Book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Wampas Baby Stars; Author: Liebman, Roy; Hardback; Book
From 1822 to 1934, almost 150 young actresses were honored as Wampas Baby Stars (baby meaning junior) by the Western Associated Motion Picture Advertisers, an early association of film publicists.
Each year, WAMPA would select at most thirteen young actresses to actively promote their organizati
www.netstoreusa.com /babooks/078/0786407565.shtml   (181 words)

  
 Silent Era : People : Actresses : Evelyn Brent
Brent was selected as a WAMPAS Baby Star of 1923, along with Eleanor Boardman and Laura La Plante.
She appeared in The Drag Net (1928) with George Bancroft, and her high-profile role as the rebel spy Natascha in The Last Command (1928) with Emil Jannings and William Powell followed.
Brent appeared in Paramount’s first talkie, Interference (1928), with an all-star cast including Powell, Clive Brook (a frequent Brent costar) and Doris Kenyon.
www.silentera.com /people/actresses/Brent-Evelyn.html   (437 words)

  
 WILLIAM HAINES Film Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Since this movie was made in 1928 at the end of the silent era, it is superior in every way.
The WAMPAS Baby Stars were a wonderful touch!
William Haines plays a studio PR man who has fallen in love with one of the Baby Stars (Judith.) He attempts to boost her career by creating outlandish headlines.
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 WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1926 (1926)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 Video & DVD
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Through the trials and tribulations of the television challenge to the film industry, Warner Brothers struggled.
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 Meet the Stars #2: Baby Stars (1941)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Plot Summary: Eight directors and eighteen former Wampas stars act as judges in choosing 1941's crop of future stars...
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 Amazon.com: The Wampas Baby Stars: A Biographical Dictionary, 1922 - 1934: Books: Roy Liebman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.
Naturally, you will not learn everything you want to know about, say, Clara Bow or Ginger Rogers, but The Wampas Baby Stars is a very handy first step.
Liebman also discusses the wannabe Wampas selections of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
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 Bad boys; similar books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 Amazon.ca: The Wampas Baby Stars: A Biographical Dictionary, 1922-1934: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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