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Young Esther Victoria Blodgett comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom and achieves them only with the help of alcoholic leading man Norman Maine, whose best days are behind him.

Director: William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Victor Fleming

Writer: Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Robert Carson

Stars: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou
Transcript
00:07For you lies the most glamorous city on earth, Hollywood, California, a city where men and
00:12women skyrocket to fame or plunge to oblivion. What happens amid the glamour of such famous
00:16gathering places as the Ambassador Poole, the Trocadero on the Gold Coast of the film
00:21city, at the Brown Derby where famous stars meet, or in the gay setting of Santa Anita
00:25Park. It's all a part of fantastic Hollywood. Hollywood at playtime. Here behind the walls
00:31of Selznick International Studio, we see Hollywood at work. A new Janet Gaynor is in the making.
00:37A Janet Gaynor never before seen on the screen. Co-starring is Frederick March, more likable,
00:42more swashbuckling than ever before. And now we take you behind the scenes. Director William
00:47A. Wellman is guiding Janet Gaynor and Frederick March as they will appear in the David O.
00:52Selznick Technicolor production, A Star is Born.
00:54All right, Freddie, you know, you've been after the girl, uh, unsuccessfully. So this
00:59time must be very tender, very earnest, and very sincere, and rather quiet. You already
01:05do? Right in, sir. Oi, roll up!
01:10So are you, lovely. And the whole world's lovely.
01:16But don't come to see a star is born expecting to find a Cinderella story or a glorification of
01:21motion picture. Instead, you will be shocked by the price that must be paid in heartbreak
01:26and tears for every moment of triumph in Hollywood.
01:29What I'm here to find out is do I get them or do I get them?
01:32Unforgettable scenes of drama, intimate secrets in the lives of the great, bold revelations
01:37of how screen careers are ruined, come to light in Selznick International's Technicolor
01:41production, A Star is Born. The rich human interest story of Hollywood is filled with happiness
01:46and despair. Joy and tragedy, a crazy quilt of madness, sanity, laughter and tears. The desperate
01:53struggle to reach the top and the battle to remain there. Selznick International brings
01:58you Janet Gaynor and Frederick March, with a notable supporting cast including Adolphe
02:02Fonju in the role of a producer. You're not in jail, are you?
02:05May Robeson. Hello, can you hear me?
02:08Annie Devine as an assistant director. Quiet! Quiet!
02:12Lionel Stander as a headline-grabbing press agent.
02:15And Edgar Kennedy. They come to you in Hollywood's first true story, rising from the heartaches
02:21and laughter of a million men and women. Janet Gaynor and Frederick March in A Star is Born
02:26give you a Hollywood the world does not know. They answer for the first time a strange question.
02:32What is the cold fear clutching at the hearts of the famous?
02:35Fonju?
02:36Fonju?
02:37Fonju?
02:38Fonju?
02:38Help Dietrich?
02:39Visit Bununiejas Anyway
02:44L rivals
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