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Uniform Title Star is born (Motion picture : 1954)
Title A star is born / Warner Bros. Pictures ; screen play by Moss Hart ; director of photography, Sam Leavitt ; a Transcona Enterprises production ; produced by Sidney Luft ; directed by George Cukor.

Publication Info. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [1954]
©1999

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Department  DVD STAR IS BORN    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  CLASSIC DVD STAR    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult DVD  DVD STAR    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - DVDs  DVD STAR    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Faxon Branch - Media Room  DVD STAR    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  DVD STAR    Check Shelf
Edition Widescreen version.
Description 1 videodisc (176 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen letterbox presentation enhanced for widescreen TVs; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Cast Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford, Tom Noonan, Lucy Marlow, Amanda Blake, Irving Bacon, Hazel Shermet.
Credits Art director, Malcolm Bert ; film editor, Folmar Blangsted ; sound by Charles B. Lang, David Forrest ; set decorator, George James Hopkins ; special effects by H.F. Koenekamp ; vocal arrangements by Jack Cathcart ; orchestrations by Skip Martin ; song "Born in a trunk" music and lyrics by Leonard Gershe ; 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 ; music by Harold Arlen ; lyrics by Ira Gershwin ; dances created and staged by Richard Barstow ; musical direction by Ray Heindorf.
Note Based on the Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Robert Carson screen play from a story by William A. Wellman and Robert Carson.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.
Also issued as part of the Judy Garland, the signature collection.
Summary Drunken waning movie star Norman Maine meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he literally stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops which blossoms into romance but tensions increase as Esther's career takes off while Norman's plummets.
Contents Side A. Feature film -- Side B. Special features.
Note Special features: Cast & crew biographies; Judy Garland outtakes ("The man that got away", "When my sugar walks down the street"); Documentary footage (Hollywood premiere newsreel, Pantages premiere TV special, Cocoanut Grove premiere party); Theatrical trailers of the 1837, 1954, and 1976 versions of the film; 1954 Warner Bros. exhibitors reel; Audio outtakes (Oliver on the phone with the director discussing Norman; Norman and Esther on the roof of the Hotel Lancaster).
Awards Golden Globes 1954: Best actress, Judy Garland; Best actor, James Mason.
Language In English with optional English or French subtitles; closed-captioned.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Local Note Some of the Simsbury Public Library items are are part of the Hayes Collection.
Subject Motion picture actors and actresses -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Jealousy -- Drama.
Genre/Form Musical films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Subject Actors -- Drama.
Indexed Term Acteurs et actrices de film cinématographique Drame.
Rapports de Homme-femme Drame.
Added Author Hart, Moss, 1904-1961. Screenwriter.
Leavitt, Samuel, 1904-1984. Cinematographer.
Luft, Sid. Producer.
Cukor, George, 1899-1983. Director.
Garland, Judy. Actor.
Mason, James, 1909-1984. Actor.
Carson, Jack, 1910-1963. Actor.
Bickford, Charles, 1891-1967. Actor.
Noonan, Tommy, 1921-1968. Actor.
Marlow, Lucy. Actor.
Blake, Amanda. Actor.
Bacon, Irving, 1893-1965. Actor.
Shermet, Hazel. Actor.
Bert, Malcolm. Artistic director.
Blangsted, Folmar, 1904-1982. Film editor.
Lang, Charles B. Sound designer.
Hopkins, George James. Set designer.
Cathcart, Jack. Arranger.
Martin, Skip. Composer.
Gershe, Leonard. Composer. Lyricist.
Sharaff, Irene. Artistic director. Costume designer.
Allen, Gene. Designer.
Louis, Jean, 1907-1997. Costume designer.
Nyberg, Mary Ann, 1923-1979. Costume designer.
Arlen, Harold, 1905-1986. Composer.
Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983. Lyricist.
Barstow, Richard. Choreographer.
Heindorf, Ray, 1908-1980. Conductor.
Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967. Author.
Campbell, Alan, 1905-1963. Author.
Carson, Robert, 1909-1983. Author.
Wellman, William A., 1937- Author.
Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
Transcona Enterprises, Inc.
Warner Home Video (Firm)
Added Title Judy Garland, the signature collection.
ISBN 0790743450
9780790743455
0790794667 set
9780790794662 set
Standard No. 085391758822
085393498320 (set)
Music No. 17588 Warner Home Video
34983 Warner Home Video (set)
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