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Hollywood’s Original Stage Moms: Rose Hovick, Ethel Gumm, Gertrude Temple and More
Hollywood’s original stage moms, including Rose Hovick, Ethel Gumm, Gertrude Temple, would stop at nothing to help their kids achieve fame and fortune.
“I’m sure a lot of people think she influenced me and perhaps was living her life through me, but there’s no question that I wanted to act,” Elizabeth Taylor said of Sara, a former actress who turned her attention to making her daughter a star…which she did with 1944’s National Velvet.“My mother was my best girlfriend, my mentor, my constant companion.” Before Dorothy became the first African American to get an Oscar nod for Best Actress, the star of 1954’s Carmen Jones was pushed into showbiz by her mom, who told her, “You ain’t going to work in [a] kitchen like me. “She was very jealous because she had absolutely no talent.” It’s no wonder then that long after the success of 1939’s The Wizard of Oz, Judy took to calling her mother “the real Wicked Witch of the West.”
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