A Star is Born

***A Star is Born (1954)*** is a UK VHS release by Warner Home Video in 1988. It got re-released on UK DVD by Warner Home Video on 10th February 2013, and as a DVD Double Feature with *Meet Me in St. Louis* (1944), in 2006. It got released on UK Blu Ray by Warner Home Video on 18 March 2013.

## Description

From one of the stars of *The Wizard of Oz*, and other MGM musicals, Judy Garland stars as a young nightclub singer who becomes a star, but she loses the man she loves - who will not allow himself to hinder her rise to fame once "A Star is Born". Esther gives the performance of her career and sings "The Man That Got Away" in the powerfully evocative, abrasively poignant behind the cameras look at romance Hollywood style. When the actress marries the famous leasing man Norman Maine (James Mason), her star shines brighter as his wanes in a tragic alcoholic haze.

## Songs

* Gotta Have Me Go with You
* The Man That Got Away
* Born in a Trunk
* Swanee
* I'll Get By
* You Took Advantage
* The Black Bottom
* The Peanut Vendor
* My Melancholy Baby
* Here's What I'm Here For
* It's a New World
* Someone at Last
* Lose That Long Face

## Cast

* Judy Garland as Vicki Lester
* James Mason as Norman Maine
* Jack Carson as Matt Libby
* Charles Bickford as Oliver Niles
* Tom Noonan as Danny McGuire
* Amanda Blake as Susan Etting (deleted/lost scene)
* Lucy Marlow as Lola Lavery
* Irving Bacon as Graves
* Hazel Shermet as Libby's Secretary
* Percy Helton as William Gregory (uncredited)
* Nancy Kulp as Esther's neighbor (uncredited)
* Frank Puglia as Bruno (uncredited)
* Strother Martin as Delivery Boy (uncredited)

## Song Quote

1. A long face gets you nowhere, you'll lose that month of May, like Peter Pan, the sweeter Pan wins the day. #

## Credits

* Directed by: George Cukor
* Produced by: Sidney Luft
* Screenplay by: Moss Hart
* Based on the Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Robert Carson, Screenplay
* From a Story by: William A. Wellman and Robert Carson
* Art Director: Malcolm Bert
* Sound by: Charles B. Lang, David Forrest
* Film Editor: Folmar Blangsted, A.C.E.
* Special Effects by: H.F. Koenekamp, A.S.C.
* Set Decorator: George James Hopkins
* Vocal Arrangements by: Jack Cathcart
* Orchestrations by: Skip Martin
* Song: "Born in a Trunk" Music and Lyrics by: Leonard Gershe
* Associate Producer: Vern Alves
* Special Colour Design Adviser: Hoyningen-Huene
* Director of Photography: Sam Leavitt, A.S.C.
* Technicolor Colour Consultant: Mitchell G. Kovaleski
* Make-up Artist: Gordon Bali
* Miss Garland's Make-up Created by: Del Armstrong, S.M.A.
* Miss Garland's Hair Styles by: Helen Young
* Assistant Directors: Edward Graham, Russell Llewellyn
* Art Direction and Costumes for "Born in a Trunk" by: Irene Sharaff
* Production Design by: Gene Allen
* Costumes Designed by: Jean Louis, Mary Ann Nyberg
* New Songs: Music by: Harold Arlen
* Lyrics by: Ira Gershwin
* Dances Created and Staged by: Richard Barstow
* Musical Direction by: Ray Heindorf
* Colour by: Technicolor
* A CinemaScope/Transcona Enterprises Production
* Distributed by: Warner Bros.
* Sound by: RCA Sound System
* MPDDA/MPAA Number: 16751
* Copyright (c) MCMLIV by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. All rights reserved.