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DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 19, 2000
Budget $5,019,770
MPAA Rating
PG
Running Time
3 hours, 1 minute
Country USA
Studio Transcona Enterprises, Warner Brothers, Warner Home Video
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Other Titles
• A Star Is Born
• Neuer Stern am Himmel, Ein (1954)
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Love, Tear Jerker, Hollywood, Gay/Lesbian, Showbiz, Marriage
Plot: A STAR IS BORN was conceived as a comeback vehicle for Judy Garland, who gives a fascinating and heartrending performance in perhaps the finest work of her career. This film was director George Cukor’s first musical and first color picture; the tale of a doomed Hollywood couple, it was a remake of the 1937 William Wellman movie with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. Garland plays young singer Esther, who saves Norman Maine (James Mason), a famous star, from making a fool of himself onstage. Maine is an alcoholic whose career is on the wane but who manages, nonetheless, to acknowledge Esther’s talent and help her jump-start a career in Hollywood. But as her star rises and his declines, Maine's misery grows. Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin provided Garland with songs that would become standards in her concert repertoire, including "The Man That Got Away," which earned an Oscar nomination for Best Song. A STAR IS BORN is also based on the earlier Cukor picture WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD?
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| Directed by |
George Cukor
Gone with the Wind, My Fair Lady, The Philadelphia Story |
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| Cast |
Judy Garland
The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis, Judgment at Nuremberg |
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Arsenic and Old Lace, Bringing Up Baby, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | | | | | |
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| Music By |
Harold Arlen
The Wizard of Oz, At the Circus, Cabin in the Sky |
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