This film provided Flynn with a star-making role.

That star-making role may depend on his wife.

Moving to New York, she appeared in a number of Broadway musicals without landing a star-making role.

Ms. Allen's ability to develop star-making roles for women was not limited to the stage.

Soon thereafter came her star-making role as a call girl who seduces a high-school student played by Tom Cruise in Risky Business.

MGM delayed its release until Gardner's star-making role in 1951's Show Boat.

After the change of directors to James Whale along with a major script and conceptual revision, the virtually unknown Boris Karloff then was cast in his star-making role.

In her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin praised Law's performance: "This is a star-making role for the preternaturally talented English actor Jude Law.

Offered the starring and star-making role in "The Graduate" as a young actor, he turned up his nose at the $500 weekly salary and lost the role.