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Mood:
- EmotionalSentimentalCaptivatingTouching
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Plot:
- Actor's LifeRising To StardomDestructive RelationshipTragic LoveShowbizAmbitionArtists and ShowbizLifestyle more...
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Genres:
- DramaMusicalMelodramaPeriodRomance
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Place:
- CaliforniaHollywood
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Audience:
- Girls' Night
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- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedMasterpieceGolden Globe WinnerPrestigious Awards
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Based on:
- Remake
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- SeriousRealistic
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Score:
- Show Tunes
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A Star Is Born, 1954
English
USA
Profile of A Star Is Born
The mood of A Star Is Born is emotional, sentimental, and captivating. The plot centers around tragic love, the life of an actor, and rising to stardom. It is a drama, musical, and romance movie. Stylistically, A Star Is Born is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is Hollywood. The musical score of A Star Is Born is show tunes. It is a remake. The movie is known for being a Golden Globe winner, a masterpiece, and critically acclaimed. A Star Is Born is especially suggested for a girls' night.
Summary of A Star Is Born
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?
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 29 September 1954 |
| Runtime: | 181 min |
Cast and Crew
as Vicki Lester
as Norman Maine
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