Release Date: Jan 1, 1932 Wide
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What Price Hollywood is often referred to as the "first" version of the oft-filmed A Star is Born. While there are strong resemblances between the two properties, Hollywood is in many respects a wholly separate entity. Constance Bennett plays a star-struck waitress who manages to make a good impression on prominent film director Lowell Sherman. With Sherman's patronage, Bennett rises to film stardom as "America's Pal." Sherman is gratified, but he keeps his distance; a chronic alcoholic, he is
Jan 1, 1932 Wide
Jan 16, 1991
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Cukor's well acted melodrama (especially by Constance Bennett) precedes by five years the first version of A Star Is Born; it's basically the same story.
The first version of the familiar "A Star Is Born" is quite good, but not up with the 1937 and 1954 versions. Well cast, good story and very entertaining.
July 10, 2009The first version of the familiar "A Star Is Born" is quite good, but not up with the 1937 and 1954 versions. Well cast, good story and very entertaining.
July 10, 2009
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