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A Star Is Born (1954)
Directed by George Cukor
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Overview
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Rated PG | Length 176 minutes
Actors
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 | Nadene 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 | Paul Levitt | Carey Loftin | Robert Locke Lorraine | Frank Marlowe | Mae Marsh | Strother Martin | Dorothy Martinson | Louis Mason | Nita Mathews | Ila McAvoy | Jack McCoy | Philo McCullough | Don McKay | Heidi Meadows | Joseph Mell | Harold Miller | Nolie Miller | Patrick Miller | Todd Miller | Wade Miller | Mort Mills | John Monaghan | Hal J. Moore | Monette Moore | Charles Morton | Jack Mower | George Nardelli | Tom Nolan | Anton Northpole | Barry Norton | Ron Nyman | William H. O'Brien | Monty O'Grady | Pat O'Malley | Leonard Penn | Barbara Pepper | Jack Pepper | Hilda Plowright | Mel Pogue | Murray Pollack | Ezelle Poule | Frank Puglia | Grandon Rhodes | Don Richards | Leoda Richards | Kay Riehl | Larry Rio | Lotus Robb | Walter Rode | Patricia Rosemond | Riza Royce | Henry Russell | Loretta Russell | Dick Ryan | John Saxon | Bernard Sell | Patrick Sexton | Harry Seymour | Joan Shawlee | Don Shelton | Charles Sherlock | Dick Simmons | Reginald Simpson | Arthur Space | Bert Spencer | Buddy Spencer | Eileen Stevens | Robert Stevenson | Robert Strong | Grady Sutton | Kay Tapscott | Dub Taylor | Wayne Taylor | Al Thompson | Ted Thorpe | Louis Tomei | Emerson Treacy | Dale van Sickel | Valerie Vernon | Ralph Volkie | Geraldine Wall | Ruth Warren | Charles Watts | Harte Wayne | Richard Webb | Duff Whitney | Shirley Whitney | Josephine Whittell | Frank Wilcox | Jean Willes | Tom Wilson | Eric Wilton | Stephen Wyman | Mary Young | Diana Deane
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/13/2016 | Movie Screen | Film | Theater | 8 stars |
| (Average) 8 stars |
Viewing Notes
Second film in the George Cukor series at Northbrook Library and another one I haven’t seen. Pretty goddamn amazing performance by Judy Garland (tbh I kept waiting for her to break out “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”). She is so fucking good here. In fact, this performance reminded me of Liza Minnelli. The moment I realized that it all made sense.
James Mason is p good as the alcoholic has-been actor. This is truly a work of fantasy fiction bc in RL there’s no way that marriage would last that long. The ending is so perfect.
I did not know this was 3 hours long but we got an intermission which was cool. The print was okay, scratched up in parts, but I wonder if it was in focus bc it looked soft in many places. ah well. I’m gonna ask them next week. Due to the length and late evening I didn’t feel like sticking around after this screening.
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