A Star is Born

1954 ★ 181 min

Starring: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson

Director: George Cukor

Writer: Moss Hart, Alan Campbell, Robert Carson

Producer: Sidney Luft

A Star Is Born is a 1954 American musical drama film directed by George Cukor, written by Moss Hart, and starring Judy Garland and James Mason.

Trivia

Selected for the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films.
Also nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actor; Academy Award for Best Actress; Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color; Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color; and 1 more.
Based on A Star Is Born (1937 film by William A. Wellman).
In December 1952, George Cukor was approached by Sid Luft, who proposed the director helm a musical remake of the 1937 film A Star Is Born, with his then wife Judy Garland in the lead role.
Garland had portrayed Vicki Lester in a December 1942 Lux Radio Theater broadcast with Walter Pidgeon, and she and Luft, along with several associates, had formed Transcona Enterprises specifically to produce the project on screen.
Cukor had declined to direct the original film because it was too similar to his 1932 work What Price Hollywood?, but the opportunity to direct his first Technicolor film and first musical, work with screenwriter Moss Hart, and especially with Garland, appealed to him, and he accepted.

8 Runs • 3 Festivals

Original Billings: 2 runs (June 20, 1937 - December 25, 1954)

Original Run: June 20, 1937 (Sunday - Wednesday)