Judy Garland

James Mason

Jack Carson

Charles Bickford

Tommy Noonan

Lucy Marlow

Amanda Blake

Irving Bacon

Hazel Shermet

James Brown

John Alban

Laurindo Almeida

Leon Alton

Rudolph Anders

David Armstrong

Phil Arnold

Nadine Ashdown

Gertrude Astor

Jack Baker

George Becwar

Don Beddoe

Rodney Bell

Oscar Blank

Lennie Bluett

Lulu Mae Bohrman

Willis Bouchey

Marshall Bradford

Ruth Brady

Paul Brinegar

Tex Brodus

Sheila Bromley

Paul Bryar

Benny Burt

Boyd Cabeen

George Calliga

Kathryn Card

John Carlyle

Beth Carter

Spencer Chan

Chick Chandler

Lauren Chapin

Beulah Christian

Samuel Colt

Heinie Conklin

Charles J. Conrad

Tom Cound

Oliver Cross

Russell Custer

Blythe Daley

Havis Davenport

Rudy Del Campo

Harry Denny

Eddie Dew

Alan DeWitt

Joe Dougherty

Helen Eby-Rock

Jack Ellis

Jean Engstrom

Harry Evans

Rex Evans

Franklyn Farnum

Timothy Farrell

Frank Ferguson

Elizabeth Flournoy

Bess Flowers

Almeda Fowler

Raoul Freeman

Nacho Galindo

Kenneth Gibson

Joe Gilbert

Joseph Glick

Jack Gordon

Wilton Graff

Marion Gray

Robert Haines

Charles Halton

Joseph Hamilton

Sam Harris

Ray Heindorf

Percy Helton

Louis Jean Heydt

Al Hill

Stuart Holmes

Olin Howland

Robert F. Hoy

James Hyland

Bob Jellison

Jay Johnson

Dick Johnstone

Arlene Karr

Fred Kelsey

Jack Kenney

Tom Kingston

George Kitchel

Allen Kramer

Frank Kreig

Henry Kulky

Nancy Kulp

Richard LaMarr

Carl M. Leviness

George Cukor

Moss Hart

Sam Leavitt

Folmar Blangsted

Sidney Luft

Jack L. Warner

Gene Allen

Robert Carson

William A. Wellman

Pat Clark

Richard L. Wilson

Saul Steinberg

Mary Ann Nyberg

Jean Louis

Malcolm C. Bert

Skip Martin

Gordon Bau

Russell Llewellyn

Earl Bellamy

George James Hopkins

Helen Young

Edward Graham

Irene Sharaff

Alan Campbell

Dorothy Parker

Del Armstrong

Charles David Forrest

Hans F. Koenekamp

Jack Cathcart

Vern Alves

Hoyningen Huene

Charles Lang

Leonard Gershe

Mitchell Kovaleski

Richard Barstow

Harold Arlen

Ira Gershwin

Drama

Music

Romance

A Star Is Born

Transcona Enterprises

Warner Bros. Pictures

United States of America

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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 and emotionally. As the title suggests, a star is well and truly born. Soon "Maine" is but an appendage to the newly renamed "Vicki Lester" which sees him spiral even more out of control, despite her addictive love for him. It's long (over 2½ hours) so inevitably, it sags at times - I could have done with more singing, but it is still a fine, touching, piece of cinema.