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DVD Release Date
• R1: Apr 20, 2004
Budget $14,000,000
Running Time
2 hours, 56 minutes
Country USA
Studio 20th Century Fox
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Other Titles
• Star!
• Loves of a Star! (1968)
• Those Were the Happy Times
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Genre: Musical, Biography, Showbiz, Suspense
Plot: A musical biography of British music hall and Broadway star Gertrude Lawrence, STAR! is a convincing and entertaining film, featuring an impressive score. The immensely talented Julie Andrews plays Lawrence, a beautiful, headstrong, and fiercely independent woman who will do anything for her career (including leaving her daughter and husband). Her early adventures in the music hall chorus and her later involvement in British high society are chronicled in this lush film that, though it received several Academy Award nominations, was not appreciated by the public until some 30 years after its original showing, when it was rereleased. One of the most interesting, heartwarming, and perhaps most famous aspects of Lawrence’s story was her lifelong friendship with playwright Nöel Coward (Daniel Massey, the real-life grandson of Coward), which the film accurately portrays. STAR! also shows the lowlights of Lawrence's life, including her strained relationship with her daughter Pamela (Jenny Agutter), her involvement with such men as American actor Charles Fraser (Robert Reed) and English nobleman Sir Anthony Spencer (Michael Craig), and the financial difficulties she amassed from her extravagant lifestyle.
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| Directed by |
Robert Wise
The Sound of Music, West Side Story, The Day the Earth Stood Still |
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| Cast |
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 | Richard Crenna
First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Hot Shots! Part Deux |
 | Jenny Agutter
An American Werewolf in London, Logan's Run, Walkabout |
 | Michael Craig
Mysterious Island, Modesty Blaise, Appointment with Death | | Robert Reed
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, A Very Brady Christmas, Bloodlust! | Bruce Forsyth
Bedknobs and Broomsticks, House!, Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Hap | |
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| Music By |
Lennie Hayton
Singin' in the Rain, Battleground, The Harvey Girls | | Jimmy Van Heusen
The Bells of St. Mary's, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Road to Bali |
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