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Oct 8, 2018 · With A Star Is Born now in theaters, Matt Goldberg looks at the similarities between the four versions of the story and how the stories diverge.
Oct 4, 2018 · What Price Hollywood? (1932) The first star to be born wasn’t even A Star Is Born. In the years before the repressive Hays Code put the kibosh on mature subject matter, George Cukor was free to...
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Nov 10, 2013 · Star and Sacred were filmed in Technicolor in order to help fulfill contractual obligations. Pioneer only made three films on its own: La Cucaracha, Becky Sharp and Dancing Pirate. I've heard that the latter, in particular, tanked at the box office, and that may have precipitated Whitney and Cooper's decision to merge with Selznick.
Here’s the Oscar history of all four “A Star Is Born” films: 1937 version: 7 nominations, 1 win, 1 honorary award Best Picture Best Director — William Wellman Best Actor — Fredric March
- Names and Occupations
- Fonts and “Over The Rainbow”
- Bathtubs and Makeup
- Taking Another Look
- Awards Shitshows
It may sound silly, but one of Cooper’s biggest departures from the earlier Stars Is Bornses is Ally’s (Lady Gaga) name. 1937: Esther Blodgett (Janet Gaynor) becomes Vicki Lester when the movie studio gives her a new name. 1954: Esther Blodgett (Judy Garland) becomes Vicki Lester when the movie studio gives her a new name. 1976: Esther Hoffman (Bar...
Near the beginning of the 2018 film, Ally leaves work and walks up a long ramp, singing the classing Wizard of Ozballad while the film’s title slowly appears. The font is very similar, if not identical, to the font used for the title of Cukor’s film, and “Over the Rainbow” is the song most commonly associated with Judy Garland. (Second place would ...
In the first two films, Esther undergoes truly horrible makeup tests (in the first one, eyebrows are a particularly rough element). The Pierson film gender-flips the makeup moment, having Esther apply bright, red clown cheeks to John Norman while they’re in a bathtub. Cooper gets the best of both worlds — the performance during which the two meet s...
There are lines of dialogue that recur in some of these movies but not others (whither the fishing comparison, Mr. Cooper?). But, as far as this writer can tell, the only one that pops up in each and every one of the films is “Just wanted to take another look at you” or some variation of the line. It’s a key element of the story’s tragic climax — a...
This is a consistent plot point — Esther/Ally wins a major award (an Oscar in 1937 and 1954, a Grammy in 1976 and 2018) and a reeling Norman/Jackson shows up wasted. Broadly speaking, it’s a scene. More specifically, the Oscars fiascos involve Norman wildly gesticulating while crashing his wife’s speech and inadvertently hitting her in the face. Co...
Jan 19, 2024 · Directed by Bradley Cooper. Image via Warner Bros. Pictures. It's natural and understandable that the most well-known version of A Star Is Born nowadays is the most recent one, which starred Lady...
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Feb 22, 2019 · George Cukor came back to direct the first musical iteration of A Star Is Born —through studio executives re-filmed and cut scenes without his approval. Eventually, a version for film buffs was...
