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A Star Is Born (1954)
Genre:
Drama / Musical (more)
Plot Summary: Drunken waining movie star Norman Maine meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he literally stumbles into her act one night...
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User Comments:
Judy Garland at Her Best
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User Rating:
 
7.6/10 (2,262 votes)
Runtime:
181 min (premiere version) / USA:154 min / USA:176 min (restored version)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix:
4-Track Stereo (RCA Sound System) (magnetic prints) / Mono (optical prints)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #16751, General Audience) / USA:PG (re-rating) (1983) / Finland:S / Sweden:Btl (re-release) / UK:U / West Germany:6
Trivia:
Because the role of Norman Maine is that of a has-been actor, it was rejected by Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift and Cary Grant (who at first accepted it) before being finally accepted by James Mason.
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Goofs:
Continuity: Vicki and Norman's house is shown, in the distance, as being on top of a bluff overlooking the ocean, but inside the house, it appears that the house is sitting on the beach.
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Quotes:
Matt Libby:
[after being introduced to Esther] Esther Blodgett? Well, we'll do something about that. Anyway, nice to have you with us.
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Awards:
Nominated for 6 Oscars.
Another 3 wins
&
3 nominations
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User Comments:
7 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
Judy Garland at Her Best, 22 June 2005
Author:
drednm
The 1954 musicalized version of A Star Is Born is a great film. Judy
Garland and James Mason (both Oscar nominated) turn in terrific
performance as Esther and Norman. Like its 1937 predecessor (which
starred Janet Gaynor and Fredric March�both Oscar nominated), the 1954
version follows the ups and down of two people set against the vicious
world of Hollywood. The newer version sticks to the basic story but
adds some great numbers for Garland, including "The Man That Got Away"
and "I Was Born in a Trunk." In a major comeback, Garland had not
worked in films since Summer Stock (1950), and her performance here is
the best of her career. That she lost the Oscar to Grace Kelly for The
Country Girl is one of Hollywood's great inequities. Mason lost to
Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront. Garland sings superbly and is a
great comic and dramatic actress. Her Esther is more vulnerable than
Gaynor's just as Mason's Norman is more pathetic than March's. I love
both versions. Charles Bickford and Jack Carson play the other major
parts, played by Adolphe Menjou and Lionel Stander in 1937. Two major
supporting roles from the 1937 version were cut from the 1954 version:
Esther's first Hollywood friend (Andy Devine) and her intrepid
grandmother (the great May Robson). But Garland's musical numbers make
up for their absence. Oddly, despite the great hullabaloo surrounding A
Star Is Born, it was not nominated for best picture, and George Cukor
was bypassed in the directing category. One of the best musicals ever
made.
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