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A Star Is Born (1937)
American romantic drama.
A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
Widely considered to be the first Technicolor film that was a bona fide critical and box office success. Until “A Star is Born” and “Nothing Sacred (1937),” color films had been garish, over saturated and, as many critics complained, headache-inducing. Producer David O. Selznick insisted on muted, realistic color, and it was the success of these two films that paved the way for his Technicolor masterpiece, “Gone with the Wind (1939).
A Star Is Born is the first all-color film nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, and the only film to be nominated for Best Actor and Actress Oscars that year.
It has been speculated (though never confirmed) since the time of the movie’s release that the story was inspired by the real-life marriage of Barbara Stanwyck and her first husband, Frank Fay.
A Star Is Born is included among the American Film Institute’s 1998 list of the 400 movies nominated for the Top 100 Greatest American Movies.
| Directed by | William A. Wellman |
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| Produced by | David O. Selznick |
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| Cinematography | W. Howard Greene |
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| Music by | Max Steiner |
| Color process | Technicolor |
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Selznick International Pictures
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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111 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.2 million |
| Box office | over $2 million |
