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The film was nominated for seven [[Academy Awards]], winning the award for [[Academy Award for Best Story|Best Screenplay]]. It was also nominated for [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], [[Academy Award for Directing|Best Director]], [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] (March), [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] (Gaynor), [[Academy Award for Best Assistant Director|Best Assistant Director]], and [[Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay|Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay]]. It won a special Academy Award for its [[technicolor]] [[cinematography]] for [[W. Howard Greene]]. |
The film was nominated for seven [[Academy Awards]], winning the award for [[Academy Award for Best Story|Best Screenplay]]. It was also nominated for [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], [[Academy Award for Directing|Best Director]], [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] (March), [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] (Gaynor), [[Academy Award for Best Assistant Director|Best Assistant Director]], and [[Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay|Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay]]. It won a special Academy Award for its [[technicolor]] [[cinematography]] for [[W. Howard Greene]]. |
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''A Star Is Born'' has been [[remake|remade]] twice, in [[A Star Is Born (1954 film)|1954]] with [[Judy Garland]] and [[James Mason]], and in [[A Star Is Born (1976 film)|1976]] with [[Barbra Streisand]] and [[Kris Kristofferson]]. The financial failure ''[[Glitter (film)|Glitter]]'' heavily borrowed plot elements from this film. |
''A Star Is Born'' has been [[remake|remade]] twice, in [[A Star Is Born (1954 film)|1954]] with [[Judy Garland]] and [[James Mason]], and in [[A Star Is Born (1976 film)|1976]] with [[Barbra Streisand]] and [[Kris Kristofferson]]. The financial and critical failure ''[[Glitter (film)|Glitter]]'' heavily borrowed plot elements from this film. |
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The scene in the film where Menjou offers the fading star a supporting role was added at the suggestion of [[George Cukor]], who directed the 1954 remake. |
The scene in the film where Menjou offers the fading star a supporting role was added at the suggestion of [[George Cukor]], who directed the 1954 remake. |
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| Directed by | William A. Wellman |
| Written by | William A. Wellman Robert Carson Dorothy Parker Alan Campbell |
| Produced by | David O. Selznick |
| Starring | Janet Gaynor Fredric March Adolphe Menjou |
| Cinematography | W. Howard Greene |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
| Distributed by | Selznick International Pictures United Artists |
Release dates | April 20, 1937 (U.S. release) |
Running time | 111 min. |
| Language | English |
A Star Is Born is a 1937 film produced by David O. Selznick and directed by William A. Wellman, with a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell. It stars Janet Gaynor as an aspiring actress who travels to Hollywood to become a movie star. She meets an actor, played by Fredric March and they marry but soon after his career develops difficulties while hers flourishes. Some cinematic theorists believe that the marriage of Barbara Stanwyck and Frank Fay was the film's real-life inspiration. John Bowers has also been identified as inspiration for the Norman Maine character and the dramatic suicide by drowning scene at the end of the film (he drowned during November 1936).
The film also has some similarities to the earlier film What Price Hollywood?, whose creators actually mulled suing, though never did.
Other members of the cast include Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine and Lionel Stander.
The film contained several inside jokes, including Gaynor's brief imitations of Katharine Hepburn and Greta Garbo, the "Crawford Smear" (referring to Joan Crawford's lipstick), and the revelation that the glamorous Norman Maine's real last name was Hinkle. (Hinkle was the real last name of silent film star Agnes Ayres).
It was filmed from October to December 1936 with an estimated budget of $1,173,639, and premiered in Los Angeles, California on April 20, 1937.
The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning the award for Best Screenplay. It was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (March), Best Actress (Gaynor), Best Assistant Director, and Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay. It won a special Academy Award for its technicolor cinematography for W. Howard Greene.
A Star Is Born has been remade twice, in 1954 with Judy Garland and James Mason, and in 1976 with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. The financial and critical failure Glitter heavily borrowed plot elements from this film.
The scene in the film where Menjou offers the fading star a supporting role was added at the suggestion of George Cukor, who directed the 1954 remake.