‘A STAR IS BORN’ JUDY GARLAND, ‘GOTTA HAVE ME GO WITH YOU’. A CLOSEUP.

Performed by Judy Garland in A Star Is Born, 1954. This is a High Quality, Full Screen Close Up. A Star Is Born has a fascinating history … “the central premise concerns a fading matinee idol, Norman Maine, whose career is rapidly declining due to a drinking problem, and his wife, a budding actress whose career is just beginning and will soon eclipse his in terms of success. … in real life, the actors playing Norman Maine and Esther Blodgett/Vicki Lester, were having the reverse experience of their screen characters. Fredric March, in the role of the drunken has-been, was actually at the height of his profession while Janet Gaynor as the up-and-coming actress was really at the end of her career.(First version,1937) …The same strange parallel also held true for the 1954 remake; James Mason was just beginning to establish himself as a leading man in Hollywood while Judy Garland was experiencing numerous health and emotional problems. … A Star Is Born proved to be a compelling subject for most moviegoers because it was based on the lives of a few Hollywood celebrities … the juiciest bits of the story were culled from real-life events. The Norman Maine character was loosely based on infamous stories surrounding John Barrymore and John Gilbert during their final years as self-destructive alcoholics. The climactic suicide at the end of A Star Is Born was also drawn from real-life; actor John Boles drowned himself in the ocean shortly after the death of his wife. The …
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