page_title: The Star (1952 film)
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: The Star (1952 film) / Production
caption_attribution_description: English: L. to R.&#160;: June Travis, Herb Vigran &amp; Bette Davis in The Star (1952) - trailer (cropped screenshot)
context_page_description: The Star is a 1952 American drama film directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Bette Davis. The plot tells the story of an aging, washed-up actress who is desperate to restart her career. Even though the film was a critical and commercial failure, Bette Davis received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
context_section_description: Katherine Albert and her husband Dale Eunson reportedly based the Margaret Elliott character on Joan Crawford, whose long friendship with the couple was ending as production began. Although it is sometimes said that she turned the role down, it never was offered to her. Bette Davis, who publicly disdained Crawford, thus eagerly took it.
  Crawford retaliated after the Eunsons sent their 17-year-old daughter Joan Evans to the actress in the hope that Crawford would talk her out of marrying a man they disapproved of. Instead, Crawford arranged the wedding, held it in her house, and called the Eunsons afterward to tell them about it. "She set the whole thing up behind our backs," Albert complained. "She called the judge and the press. She didn't invite us to our own daughter's wedding."
caption: Fay Baker, Herb Vigran and Bette Davis
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