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film star

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noun

  1. a popular film actor or actress

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Moreno Highlands is named after 1920s silent film star and director, Antonio Moreno, who appeared alongside Greta Garbo in the 1926 movie, “The Temptress.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, the tale of silent film star Norma Desmond’s descent into murderous derangement as her Hollywood comeback stays out of frame, is the other.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

And in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, veteran politician MK Stalin was trailing, challenged by a political debutante -- film star C. Joseph Vijay.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

Her Bridgerton co-star Rege-Jean Page and Canadian film star Michael Cera also made cameos.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

She looked singularly lovely, not like a film star, but like a woman who had grown a souL She was singing by herself.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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