No One Told Me It’s Three Hours Long
Host Shelly Brisbin with Jean MacDonald
This is the film that should have won Judy Garland the Oscar. It was both her greatest triumph, and a comeback film. It’s directed by George Cukor, the “woman’s director” of so many female-centered studio films. There’s a whole book about the making of “A Star is Born,” in fact. Also, this is the three-hour one.
Listen to this episode (1 hour, 2 minutes)
Show Notes
- A Star is Born (1954) trailer
- Available to stream, rent or buy digitally
- On disc: Multi-format DVD
- A Star is Born premiere video
- “A Star is Born: The Making of the 1954 Movie and Its 1983 Restoration” by Ronald Haver
- Next time, we’ll watch Too Lat for Tears (1949).