Product: Star Is Born (UK PAL Region 0)
Rating: 3.0
Could not get past the leading lady
I am obviously in the minority here as Many other reviewers loved Janet Gaynor in the role of Esther/Vicki, but I didn't buy her as a Hollywood star for a minute. She was too old for the role in the first place, and her hair and makeup were absolutely matronly. She looked like a little mouse next to the statuesque, stunning young woman Norman brought as a date to the party at which Esther was waitressing, For me, Miss Gaynor, in her early thirties at the time, strained credibility too much playing an ingenue. It can be done. See Bette Davis in the film "In This Our Life" , playing 21-ish when she herself was 37. Wardrobe, hair and makeup!