Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentTo celebrate Variety’s 115th anniversary, we went to the archives to see how some of Hollywood’s biggest stars first landed in the pages of our magazine.
Read more from the archives here.Meryl Streep first caught the public’s attention in a few high-class projects: in 1977, the Fred Zinnemann-directed “Julia” and, in 1978, “Holocaust” and “The Deer Hunter,” where she earned her first Emmy and Oscar nominations, respectively.
There were no bit parts in movies or TV show before then: She seemed to have sprung fully formed from the forehead of Zeus. But in fact, she had paid her dues for years onstage — and even those were leading roles in prestige productions.Variety first mentioned her in a review of “The.
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