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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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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 ...
This was the only occasion an actress won one Oscar for multiple film roles. Gaynor's career success continued into the sound film era, and she achieved notable success in the original version of A Star Is Born (1937), for which she received a second Best Actress Academy Award nomination.
Oct 4, 2018 · A look back at all the various stars that have been born, including Judy Garland, Janet Gaynor, and Barbra Streisand.
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Actress: A Star Is Born. Janet Gaynor was born Laura Gainor on October 6, 1906, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a child, she & her parents moved to San Francisco, California, where she graduated from high school in 1923.
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Janet Gaynor was born Laura Gainor on October 6, 1906, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a child, she & her parents moved to San Francisco, California, where she graduated from high school in 1923. She then moved to Los Angeles where she enrolled in a secretarial school. She got a job at a shoe store for the princely sum of $18 per week.
Oct 7, 2018 · Norman Maine (played by Fredric March) asks this of Esther Blodgett ( Janet Gaynor) as he says good night on the evening of their first meeting in the 1937 movie A Star Is Born.
