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Salvaging a Troubled Star of Early Hollywood

Warner Baxter pursued stardom as intensely as his male contemporaries, but he did not have the stamina that attended the success of contemporaries like Clark Gable and James Cagney.

Warner Baxter as Jay Gatsby in a retouched publicity still from 'The Great Gatsby,' 1926.
Warner Baxter as Jay Gatsby in a retouched publicity still from 'The Great Gatsby,' 1926. Paramount Pictures via Wikimedia Commons

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