WhenJudy Garland received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance in 1954's A Star Is Born, she was widely expected to go home with the gold.Instead, she went home with a baby. Though Wellmans ending for the 1937 original "A Star Is Born" was used in the first adaptation of the story, George Cukor's 1954 musical with Judy Garland and James Mason. In that film, Mason Areview requested by Mark Falconer, with thanks for contributing to the Second Quinquennial Antagony & Ecstasy ACS Fundraiser. My sense is that the 1954 version of A Star Is Born is thought of first and above all, and maybe to the exclusion of all else, as a Judy Garland vehicle. That's fair, because Garland's work as upcoming movie superstar Vicki Lester née Esther Blodgett is one of the Shortenedafter its 1954 premiere and reconstructed to near its original length in 1983, A Star Is Born endures as one of Hollywood's supreme triumphs. $5.019 million. $4.355 million. Panasonic 50" TH-50PZ77U 1080p Plasma Monitor; Sony STR-DG1200 7.1 Channel Receiver; Panasonic DMP-BD60K Blu-Ray Player using HDMI outputs; Michael Green The1954 musical remake of A Star is Born could have been titled A Star is Reborn, in that it represented the triumphal return to the screen of Judy Garland after a four-year absence. The remake adheres closely to the plotline of the 1937 original: An alcoholic film star, on his last professional legs, gives a career boost to a unknown aspiring actress. qwp9.

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