A Star Is Born
- Released on
Drama, Romance
•- Runtime
- 111 mins
(208 votes)
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.
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.
Cast
- Janet Gaynor
- Fredric March
- Adolphe Menjou
- May Robson
- Andy Devine
- Lionel Stander
- Owen Moore
- Peggy Wood
- Elizabeth Jenns
- Edgar Kennedy
- J. C. Nugent
- Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
- Irving Bacon
- Jane Barnes
- Clara Blandick
- Wade Boteler
- Sidney Bracey
- Harry C. Bradley
- George Chandler
- Pat Flaherty
- Francis Ford
- Joe Gray
- Jonathan Hale
- Chuck Hamilton
- Lillian Harmer
- Edward Hearn
- I. Stanford Jolley
- Carole Landis
- Chris-Pin Martin
- Edwin Maxwell
- Marshall Neilan
- David Newell
- Robert Emmett O'Connor
- Dennis O'Keefe
- Franklin Pangborn
- Jed Prouty
- Tom Ricketts
- Paul Stanton
- Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
- Clarence Wilson
- A.W. Sweatt
Director
- William A. Wellman
Producers
- David O. Selznick
Screenwriter
- Dorothy Parker
- Alan Campbell
- Robert Carson
