From an early age, Arthur knew performers and became stagestruck. From Wordnik.com. [Emancipation] Reference
“Because the whole thing was so puzzling at first, we wondered if Katie was a little stagestruck, fibbing about seeing the, uh, flower man.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Flower Man] Reference
At age five, she was pushed into show business by her stagestruck parents, Arthur and Katie (Silverman) Rutstein, and a year later, she was cast in a Broadway play. From Wordnik.com. [Lillian Roth.] Reference
They went to the playing fields not as men go to the tennis-club but as stagestruck girls go to an Audition; tense and anxious, racked with dazzling hopes and sickening fears, never in peace of mind till they had won some notice which would set their feet on the first rung of the social ladder. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
The aging windbag who would have held Divine Service six times a week if he had been allowed and who, despite his frequent laughter, never seemed to understand anyone else's jokes, seemed like the last sort of expedition commander to load trunks of frivolous costumes the way the stagestruck Parry had. From Wordnik.com. [The Terror]
If you want to become hopelessly stagestruck, read. From Wordnik.com. [About Last Night] Reference
Balzac, though not stagestruck in the same degree as Charles Reade, had. From Wordnik.com. [Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"] Reference
A stagestruck young actor accidentally receives somebody else's invitation to test in Hollywood. From Wordnik.com. [Alternative Film Guide] Reference
University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hanover / Fachhochschule Hannover things stagestruck like. From Wordnik.com. [Super Mario Bros. on Vimeo] Reference
My parents, being stagestruck, would make regular trips to New York and come back with cast albums and Playbills from. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Broadway Buzz] Reference
Neubert plays the singing-and-dancing murderer Velma Kelly and Zick plays stagestruck Roxie Hart, who shot her lover. From Wordnik.com. [Durangoherald.com] Reference
Harlow's melodramatic life included a Midwest upbringing, a stagestruck mother and three husbands, one who killed himself. From Wordnik.com. [Forbes.com: News] Reference
Reade, we know, was absolutely stagestruck, and wrote dozens of plays and spent a great deal of money over them; indeed, it is not too much to say that his mania for the theatre seriously injured his work as a novelist. From Wordnik.com. [Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"] Reference
One can name a number of literary men of great rank who have written vainly for the stage, to say nothing of others who are authors of works in the form of drama, but nevertheless, like a Shelley, Swinburne or Longfellow, may not have been stagestruck. From Wordnik.com. [Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"] Reference
Harvey, the matinee idol, only for the moustache which she preferred because she wasn’t stagestruck like Winny. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
And while I loved being a Frogman, I’d peer through the chain-link fence like a stagestruck kid on his first visit to Broadway, watching as the SEALs came and the SEALs went and vowing that somehow I, too, would someday become a SEAL. From Wordnik.com. [Rogue Warrior]
She was stagestruck. From Wordnik.com. [What's-His-Name] Reference
"My stagestruck days are over, Pagan. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Possessed]
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