MOVIE · 1937
A Star Is Born
DramaRomance111 min
Esther Blodgett leaves the farm for Hollywood, where a waitressing job at a movie-studio party puts her in the path of fading star Norman Maine. Janet Gaynor is Esther, whose screen test turns her into the rising actress Vicki Lester, while Fredric March’s Norman watches his own career slip under the strain of chronic alcoholism. As her new name climbs the marquee and his standing begins to erode, the film follows their marriage through studio publicity, celebrity attention, and the machinery that can remake a person almost overnight.
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