A Star Is Born is a 1954 American musical film written by Moss Hart, starring Judy Garland and James Mason. Garland had not made a film since she had negotiated release from her MGM contract soon after filming began on Royal Wedding in 1950. In 2000, the 1954 film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
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A Star Is Born is a 1954 American musical film written by Moss Hart, starring Judy Garland and James Mason, and directed by George Cukor. Garland had not made a film since she had negotiated release from her MGM contract soon after filming began on Royal Wedding in 1950. In 2000, the 1954 film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. The film ranked #43 on the American Film Institute’s 100 Years… 100 Passions list in 2002 and #7 on its list of greatest musicals in 2006. It is the second of four official adaptations of A Star is Born, with the first in 1937 starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, the third in 1976 starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, and the fourth in 2018 starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. The song \”The Man That Got Away\” was ranked #11 on AFI’s list of 100 top songs in films. It was based on the original screenplay by Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, and from the same story by William A. Wellman and Carson, with uncredited input from six additional writers—David O. Selznick, Ben Hecht, Ring Lardner Jr., John Lee Mahin, Budd Schulberg and Adela Rogers St. Johns. For her performance in A Star Is born, Garland was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. For more information on the National Film registry, visit http://www.filmreceipts.org/National-Film-Preservation-Programs/A-Star-Is-Born-in-1950s-1954-National-film- Registry-Program.html.
The National-Film Registry is a program of the Motion Picture Association of America, which manages the nation’s national film collections and preserves the best films of all time. The national film registry also manages the national film collection of all films made in the U.S. and Canada, and manages the international film collections of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Australia and South Africa. It also manages to maintain the film’s reputation as one of the world’s best-loved musicals, with more than 100,000 copies of the film sold worldwide since its release in 1954. In the film, Esther Blodgett is a talented aspiring singer with a band, and Norman Maine is a former matinee idol with a career in the early stages of decline. Esther tells Danny McGuire, her bandmate, that she’s quitting their upcoming gig to pursue movies in L. A. Norman is called away early in the morning to filming and then falls ill. He attempts to get a message to Esther but cannot remember her address. When she doesn’t hear from him, she suspects he was insincere, she takes jobs as a carhop and TV commercial singer to make ends meet, convinced she can make it, with or without Norman.
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