A Star Is Born (1954) Reviews & Ratings

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A Star Is Born reviews

A Star Is Born holds a 7.1/10 average from 340 TMDB ratings.

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 can until good fort…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

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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