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Minor Interest
The Celluloid Closet

CGiii Rating

"It's the Downbeat club at two in the morning and you're singing for yourself and for the boys in the band."
Minor Gay Interest

Public Rating

Star is Born (A)

Country: USA, Language: English, 181 mins

The Celluloid Closet | Minor Interest | Musical | 1954
  • Director: George Cukor
  • Writer: Moss Hart; Dorothy Parker
  • Producer: Vern Alves; Sidney Luft

CGiii Comment

Gay icon and a gay director...

If you like Judy...then, this is a treat.

If you don't like Judy...then, this is slog. Really, there is only one good song and way too much hammy acting.

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The(ir) Blurb...

Norman Maine, a movie star whose career is on the wane, meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he drunkenly stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops, then blossoms into romance before tensions increase as Esther's career takes off while Norman's continues to plummet.

Cast & Characters

Judy Garland as Vicki Lester / Esther Blodgett;
James Mason as Norman Maine;
Jack Carson as Matt Libby;
Charles Bickford as Oliver Niles;
Tommy Noonan as Danny McGuire;
Lucy Marlow as Lola Lavery;
Amanda Blake as Susan Ettinger;
Irving Bacon as Graves - Norman's valet;
Hazel Shermet as Libby's secretary;
James Brown as Glenn Williams;
Laurindo Almeida as Guitarist;
Rudolph Anders as Mr. Ettinger;
David Armstrong as Sound man;
Phil Arnold as Agent #3;
Nadine Ashdown as Esther, age 6

IMDb

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047522