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A Star Is Born is a 1937 American Technicolor drama film produced by David O. Selznick, directed by William A. Wellman from a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell, and starring Janet Gaynor (in her only Technicolor film) as an aspiring Hollywood actress, and Fredric March (in his Technicolor debut) as a fading ...
A Star Is Born: Directed by William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Victor Fleming. With Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson. Young Esther Victoria Blodgett comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom and achieves them only with the help of alcoholic leading man Norman Maine, whose best days are behind him.
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- 1937-04-27
- Drama, Romance
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Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
One of the first films to be shot in the new 3-strip Technicolor process, A Star is Born stars Janet Gaynor as Esther Blodgett, a starry-eyed Midwestern farm girl who dreams of going to Los Angeles and becoming a famous actress.
- William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Eric Stacey
- Janet Gaynor
Oct 7, 2018 · With its inverse tale of one star on the rise as another falls, and its unflinching examination of the costs of stardom and the demons of addiction, A Star Is Born is a story that...
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Peggy Wood. Miss Phillips. Edgar Kennedy. Pop Randall. SEE ALL OFFERS. The more famous his wife (Janet Gaynor) gets, the more a matinee idol (Fredric March) drinks.
