She was a screen idol who fell in love, a goddess who sinned, a mother who wouldn't let go.

His muscular build, boyish charm and natural sense of fun and adventure made him a popular screen idol with men and women alike.

His son Jonathan Croall is writing a book about the screen idols of the 1920s, including John Stuart.

Unlike some of today's screen idols, Ms. Bacall seems to have a facility for playing with words, not just memorizing them.

That would have been all he needed, millions of teenage girls hating his guts for killing their screen idol.

Cursons, whose screen idol is Audrey Hepburn, hopes one day to carve out a career for herself in the films.

He had the tragic air of a screen idol who'd done time.

He refused interviews and photographs in later years, preferring not to disillusion his millions of fans who remembered him as their screen idol.

Or even the one-time teen screen idol.

The car - built at a cost of $25,000 - was still being built for the screen idol at the time of his death in 1926.