A Star Is Born (1937)
Is the price of stardom a broken heart?
111 min
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
- Release date
- April 20, 1937
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $1,200,000
- Box office
- $2,370,000
Trailer
Cast
- Janet Gaynor as Esther Victoria Blodgett - aka Vicki Lester
- Fredric March as Norman Maine
- Adolphe Menjou as Oliver Niles
- May Robson as Grandmother Lettie Blodgett
- Andy Devine as Danny McGuire
- Lionel Stander as Matt Libby
- Owen Moore as Casey Burke - Director
- Peggy Wood as Miss Phillips - Central Casting Clerk
- Elizabeth Jenns as Anita Regis
- Edgar Kennedy as Pop Randall - Landlord
Crew
- William A. Wellman · Director
- Dorothy Parker · Writer
- Alan Campbell · Writer
- Robert Carson · Writer
- William A. Wellman · Writer
- David O. Selznick · Producer
- Max Steiner · Composer
- W. Howard Greene · Cinematographer
- Hal C. Kern · Editor
- James E. Newcom · Editor
- Lansing C. Holden · Production designer