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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 movie star who helps launch her career.
- Max Steiner
- April 20, 1937 (Grauman's Chinese Theatre)
A Star Is Born: Directed by William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Victor Fleming. With Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson. A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
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- 1937-04-27
- Drama, Romance
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Oct 4, 2018 · A Star Is Born (1937) Janet Gaynor and Fredric March brought this tragedy of squandered potential and volatile self-loathing into the era of glorious Technicolor with the first take under the ...
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Cast (in credits order) verified as complete. Janet Gaynor. ... Esther Victoria Blodgett - aka Vicki Lester. Fredric March. ... Norman Maine. Adolphe Menjou.
Star Is Born, A (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Stop Mooning About Hollywood Producer David Selznick is credited with the framing device, introducing Esther (Janet Gaynor) and brother (A.W. Sweatt) telling father, aunt and granny (J.C. Nugent, Clara Blandick, May Robson) about a movie with Norman Maine (Fredric March, who will figure later), in A Star Is Born, 1937.
- William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Eric Stacey
- Janet Gaynor
Oct 7, 2018 · The '37 version leans least on the established star personas of its leads. March and Gaynor bring a lived-in quality to their roles that makes their characters more real, whereas with Judy Garland ...
Esther makes friends with Danny McGuire, an out-of-work assistant director who lives in her rooming-house, and when he gets a job, they go to a performance at the Hollywood Bowl, where Norman arrives drunk with actress Anita Regis and then starts a fight with a persistent photographer. Danny gets Esther a job as a waitress at a party his ...
