Chapters on origins, types of star, Charles Chaplin, James Dean, merchandise, 'The Star and the Actor', 'The Star and Us'; illustrated, first published in France in 1957 and translated here by Richard Howard; one of the publisher's Evergreen Profile Series, along with books of Shakespeare, Haydn, Schumann, Ravel, Chopin, Wagner, Goether, and Jazz: heady company for the subject.