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A Star Is Born: Directed by Bradley Cooper. With Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott, Andrew Dice Clay. A musician helps a young singer find fame as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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- Drama, Music, Romance
- Bradley Cooper
- 2018-10-05
Oct 8, 2018 · Cooper’s film is the fourth version of A Star Is Born. The story originally came to the big screen in William A. Wellman ’s 1937 movie, which starred Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. The first ...
Oct 4, 2018 · A Star Is Born (2018) Now that Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga have assumed the mantle of those select stars which are born, critics have been lining up to lay hosannas at their feet. The Guardian ...
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- The Original, A Romantic Drama
- The Musical Adaptation
- The Musical Remake
The Plot: The plot of the first film differs the most from the following renditions, as the lead character’s passion is for acting rather than singing. Janet Gaynor(1906-1984) plays Esther, who grew up on a farm in North Dakota. After Esther moves to Los Angeles to pursue acting, she meets Norman Maine (Fredric March), an alcoholic actor Esther loo...
The Plot: 1954’s A Star Is Born, directed by George Cukor, took inspiration from the original and showed Esther again as an aspiring Hollywood star. This time, the it-girl of the 1950s was Judy Garland (1922-1969), whose career had taken off with her role Dorothy in 1939’s The Wizard of Oz. Garland’s leading man was played by James Mason, a British...
The Plot: The 1976 adaptation of A Star Is Born — perhaps better known as the Barbra Streisandversion — took the previous two films’ backdrop of Hollywood and turned its star into an aspiring singer rather than an actress. Directed by Frank Pierson, who co-wrote the movie with Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, the film opens with Streisand’s Esth...
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- Rachel E. Greenspan
Box office. $436.2 million [7] A Star Is Born is a 2018 American musical romantic drama produced and directed by Bradley Cooper (in his directorial debut) with a screenplay by Cooper, Eric Roth and Will Fetters. It stars Cooper and Lady Gaga in lead roles, with Dave Chappelle, Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Elliott in supporting roles.
Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/01/24 Full Review iris It was actually 'A Star Is Born' (1976) with Barbra Streisand & Krist Krisrofferson. This was the best version. This was the ...
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Nov 30, 2019 · A Star Is Born has been out for over a year, but the film, starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, has more to offer each watch through. These are 10 amazing details you may have missed.
