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• s  infatuated with or enthralled by the theater especially the desire to act

• The following week, the stage-struck gosling, like millions of other Henie-worshipers, was flapping around an ice-covered pond.
• These strenuous performances filled his pockets, ministered to his stage-struck ego and almost certainly shortened his life.
• He was a stage-struck Newark boy who acted on Broadway, then switched to writing.

Quotes

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• Bette Davis in Minneapolis Star Tribune
  In one scene author Joseph Mankiewicz' stage directions for Margo read: "the steel begins to flash," as Davis, her blue eyes glaring, responds to her lover's description of Eve as a "stage-struck kid." "Stage-struck kid ...... She's a young...