Although the audience boos when she starts to sing, she wins them over. She thinks no one would be able to sing to the tune she has written, but he makes up some lyrics and starts singing.Īt his next concert, John gets Esther on stage to sing. There, they make love, have a bubble bath together, and he listens to her playing his piano. John takes Esther to his mansion and writes her name on the wall with a can of spray paint. Esther happens to be at the radio station at the same time, taping a commercial. The disc jockey does not accept John's apology and calls John an alcoholic over the air. Later, John goes to the radio station with a case of whiskey to make peace with Bebe Jesus. Bebe Jesus then threatens to never play John's songs. John gets angry and shoots at the helicopter. A radio DJ, Bebe Jesus, hovers over the pool in a helicopter and invites John to his studio. John is taken away by ambulance and his entourage leave in the helicopter forgetting Esther.Īfterwards, John is resting at home by his pool. After arriving by helicopter, John rides a motorbike around the stage, snags a cable and crashes off the front of the stage. Over breakfast (pepperoni pizza), she agrees to go to a concert with him.
They go to Esther's, but she invites him to come back for breakfast. Esther grabs John and helps him escape out a back door.
One of John's fans finds him there and starts a fight. John's entourage, including his manager Brian, takes him to a bar where Esther Hoffman is singing. He is drunk, sings a couple of songs, and walks off stage. John Norman Howard, a famous and self-destructive singer/songwriter rock star, arrives late for a concert. It received four nominations at the 49th Academy Awards Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Sound, and winning Best Original Song for its love theme " Evergreen". However, it received mixed reviews, with praise for its performances and musical score, but criticism of the screenplay, lack of originality, and the runtime. The film became a huge box office success, grossing $80 million on a $6 million budget in North America, becoming the 2nd highest-grossing film of 1976. It is a remake of the 1937 original starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, which had also been adapted in 1954 as a musical starring Judy Garland and James Mason, and again in 2018 starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.Ī Star Is Born premiered at the Mann Village Theater on December 18, 1976, and was theatrically released by Warner Bros. Pictures on December 19, 1976. The film's narrative follows a young singer who meets and falls in love with an established rock and roll star, only to find her career ascending while his goes into decline. A Star Is Born is a 1976 American musical romantic drama film directed by Frank Pierson, written by Pierson, John Gregory Dunne, Joan Didion, and starring Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey, Paul Mazursky, and Joanne Linville.
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