Production Year: 1954 - Music / Performing Arts - Director: George Cukor - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: James Mason, Charles Bickford, Jack Carson, Tom Noonan, Amanda Blake, Lucy Marlow, Judy Garland more
A STAR IS BORN was conceived as a comeback vehicle for Judy Garland, who gives a fascinating and heartrending performance in perhaps the finest work of her career. This film was... more
Judy Garland's comeback vehicle after she had been cruelly axed by MGM studios for professional unreliability. Her erratic moods caused serious production delays t...
addresses her fans while still rocked by personal tragedy. It's the kind of grandiose gesture we love in a movie star, and the originalA Star Is Bornis gloriously grand...
Judy Garland's comeback vehicle after she had been cruelly axed by MGM studios for professional unreliability. Her erratic moods caused serious production delays t...
George Cukor's first musical and first colour film and a showcase for the great Harold Arlen/Ira Gershwin songs in state-of-the-art stereo. One of the most belo...
addresses her fans while still rocked by personal tragedy. It's the kind of grandiose gesture we love in a movie star, and the originalA Star Is Bornis gloriously grand...
Genre: Musicals & Music Films - Musicals & Other Music Films
Classification: Universal
Production Year: 1954
Running Time: 2 hours 49 minutes
Plot: A musical remake of the 1937 drama story of two people, one moving up, the other slipping down the ladder of showbiz success. Features the songs 'Born In A Trunk', 'Swanee' and 'The Man That Got Away'.
Release details
DVD Region: DVD
Studio(s): WARNER HOME VIDEO; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date: 10/02/2003
No of Discs: 2
Catalogue No: D 017588
Barcode: 7321900175883
Screenwriter: Moss Hart
Composer: Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen
Lyricist: Ira Gershwin
Languages
Main Language: English
DVD Description
A STAR IS BORN was conceived as a comeback vehicle for Judy Garland, who gives a fascinating and heartrending performance in perhaps the finest work of her career. This film was director George Cukor's first musical and first color picture; the tale of a doomed Hollywood couple, it was a remake of the 1937 William Wellman movie with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. Garland plays young singer Esther, who saves Norman Maine (James Mason), a famous star, from making a fool of himself onstage. Maine is an alcoholic whose career is on the wane but who manages, nonetheless, to acknowledge Esther's talent and help her jump-start a career in Hollywood. But as her star rises and his declines, Maine's misery grows. Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin provided Garland with songs that would become standards in her concert repertoire, including "The Man That Got Away," which earned an Oscar nomination for Best Song.
Technical information
Special Features: Featurettes - 1.Jack Warner Promo, 2.Pantages Premiere TV Special (30 mins), 3. Hollywood Premiere Newsreel, 4. Coconut Grove Premiere Party, Alternate Scenes - Three Alternate Versions of The Man Who Got Away (13 mins), Deleted Scenes - Deleted Musical Number When My Sugar Walks Down The Street, Outtakes, Trailers - Three Theatrical Trailers
Advantages: Greatest film ever made Disadvantages: Drug abusive scenes
...Media: DVD - Action/Adventure
Actors: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia
Director: Brian De Palma
Format: PAL, SpecialEdition
Language: English, Spanish
Region: 2
Classification: 18 and over
Studio: Universal Pictures UK
Release Date: 9th December 1983
Running Time: 164 minutes
Price: £3.18
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