A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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Judy Garland
Vicki Lester
James Mason
Norman Maine
Jack Carson
Matt Libby
Charles Bickford
Oliver Niles
Tommy Noonan
Danny McGuire
Lucy Marlow
Lola Lavery
Amanda Blake
Susan Ettinger
Irving Bacon
Graves
Hazel Shermet
Libby's Secretary
James Brown
Glenn Williams (uncredited)
Director
George Cukor
Screenplay
Moss Hart
Tagline
"The applause of the world... and then this!"
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$5,019,770
Revenue
$12,000,000
Production
Transcona Enterprises, Warner Bros. Pictures
CinemaSerf
March 28, 2022
One cannot watch this nowadays without seeing parallels between the James Mason role as "Norman Maine" and Judy Garland's own later life. He is the falling star of Hollywood kept afloat by booze and the ceaseless efforts of his studio boss "Oliver Niles" (Charles Bickford) to keep him from complete self-destruction. Meantime "Esther Blodgett" (Garland) is a struggling chanteuse taking any job she ...
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