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Television brought movie into folks’s homes—but flattened Hollywood. She was a huge star in her day, however through the years the luster of her fame has dimmed considerably. I suppose that’s the best way of issues. It is only our own solipsism and slender focus that permits us to speak concerning the “immortality” of movie stars. That kind of discuss in nice for Oscar speeches and TCM intros, but the fact is that Jean Arthur was world well-known at one point and since her death her fame has shrunk and shrunk with every passing 12 months. She can be all however forgotten at some point. Movies are still a younger artwork type. In simply another hundred years will anybody know who Jean Arthur is? Or will she exist solely as a shadow on a knowledge file in a computer somewhere, accessed once every few years by some bleary-eyed movie pupil … Read more