Make Me a Star — Chet Hagan

GLITTER. MONEY. FAME. STARDOM. BOOZE. DRUGS. PAIN. STARDOM. THE DREAM. Marcia Caldwell is young, beautiful, talented, determined, and a dreamer. her dreams always end on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry, the mother church of country music. Dreams, though, have a way of turning into nightmares, and the road to stardom, like the road to Hell, is paved with good intentions and honky-tonks. Using her body as well as her talent, sometimes wasting both, Marcia starts down that road as a sweet young girl from the mountains of Tennessee. A year later she is no longer sweet nor innocent. Slim Marshall, the King of Country Music, has fallen victim to her sexual blackmail. And she has fallen victim to herself. From Nashville to Vegas, from the recording studios to the concert stages. Marcia's fame spreads like a wildfire. But the fires within her are not quenched, not in Slim's arms or in the bed of Waycross George, the tough, super-macho outlaw star. Stardom may mean adulation but it doesn't me