72%User score 72 percent
A Star Is Born
1937 · Drama · Romance
User Score
334 votes
The applause of the world... and then this!
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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CinemaSerf
March 28, 2022
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 fortu…
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