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AMY SLIPS INTO STARDOM

It wasn’t always red carpets and Oscar nominations for Amy Adams, who vamps it up Rita Hayworth-style in the new Vanity Fair (inset).

The stunning “Enchanted” star vividly recalls doing dinner theater in Minnesota and having a short Hooters career to make ends meet.

Now Adams’ biggest problem is keeping her Starbucks-working mom’s undying pride in check.

“I was like, ‘Mom, you cannot tell everybody who comes in to get a latte that your daughter is an Oscar nominee [for her supporting role in 2005’s “Junebug”],’ ” Adams, 34, tells the magazine.