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A Star Is Born

"The applause of the world... and then this!"

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Top Cast

  • Judy Garland

    Judy Garland

    Vicki Lester

  • James Mason

    James Mason

    Norman Maine

  • Jack Carson

    Jack Carson

    Matt Libby

  • Charles Bickford

    Charles Bickford

    Oliver Niles

  • Tommy Noonan

    Tommy Noonan

    Danny McGuire

  • Lucy Marlow

    Lucy Marlow

    Lola Lavery

  • Amanda Blake

    Amanda Blake

    Susan Ettinger

  • Irving Bacon

    Irving Bacon

    Graves

  • Hazel Shermet

    Hazel Shermet

    Libby's Secretary

Overview

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Rating

7.1 / 10
330 Reviews
1 Popular

1 Reviews

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    7 Mar 28, 2022

    One cannot watch this nowadays without seeing parallels between the James Mason role as "Norman Maine" and Judy Garland's own later life. He is the falling star of Hollywood kept afloat by booze and the ceaseless efforts of his studio boss "Oliver Niles" (Charles Bickford) to keep him from complete self-destruction. Meantime "Esther Blodgett" (Garland) is a struggling chanteuse taking any job she can until good fortune strikes. One night, serendipity takes a hand in this and their paths cross. He hears her sing "The Man That Got Away" with her band in a bar and is smitten both professionally and emotionally. As the title suggests, a star is well and truly born. Soon "Maine" is but an appendage to the newly renamed "Vicki Lester" which sees him spiral even more out of control, despite her addictive love for him. It's long (over 2½ hours) so inevitably, it sags at times - I could have done with more singing, but it is still a fine, touching, piece of cinema.

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