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A Star Is Born

1954 • 2h 56m •
Drama Music Romance
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★ 7.1/10
340 reviews
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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.

"The applause of the world... and then this!"

Top Billed Cast

Judy Garland
Judy Garland
Vicki Lester
James Mason
James Mason
Norman Maine
Jack Carson
Jack Carson
Matt Libby
Charles Bickford
Charles Bickford
Oliver Niles
Tommy Noonan
Tommy Noonan
Danny McGuire
Lucy Marlow
Lucy Marlow
Lola Lavery
Amanda Blake
Amanda Blake
Susan Ettinger
Irving Bacon
Irving Bacon
Graves

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2022-03-28

One cannot watch this nowadays without seeing parallels between the James Mason role as "Norman Maine" and Judy Garland's own later life. He is the falling star of Hollywood kept afloat by booze and the ceaseless efforts of his studio boss "Oliver Niles" (Charles Bickford) to keep him from complete self-destruction. Meantime "Esther Blodgett" (Garland) is a struggling chanteuse taking any job she can until good fortune strikes. One night, serendipity takes a hand in this and their paths cross. He hears her sing "The Man That Got Away" with her band in a bar and is smitten both professionally a...