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A Star Is Born
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
1954 · Directed by George Cukor · 176 min · Drama · Music · Romance · 18 frames
Tagline
The applause of the world... and then this!
Crew
- Screenplay: Moss Hart
- Cinematography: Sam Leavitt
- Edited by: Folmar Blangsted
- Music: Leonard Gershe, Harold Arlen
- Production design: Gene Allen
- Produced by: Sidney Luft
Cast
- Judy Garland as Vicki Lester
- James Mason as Norman Maine
- Jack Carson as Matt Libby
- Charles Bickford as Oliver Niles
- Tommy Noonan as Danny McGuire
- Lucy Marlow as Lola Lavery
- Amanda Blake as Susan Ettinger
- Irving Bacon as Graves
- Hazel Shermet as Libby's Secretary
- James Brown as Glenn Williams (uncredited)
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Transcona Enterprises, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Budget: $5,019,770
- Box office: $12,000,000
- Themes: career, husband wife relationship, musical, alcoholism, remake, fame, los angeles, california, partially lost film, fading star
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