Tag: A STAR IS BORN

June 2, 2014 /

Listen to me, Esther, a career is a curious thing. Talent isn’t always enough. You need a sense of timing – an eye for seeing the turning point or recognizing the big chance when it comes along and grabbing it. A career can rest on a trifle. Like – like…

February 12, 2014 /

*** Book 1 | BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD.

March 18, 2013 /

Thanks Wikipedia! Production A Star Is Born was filmed from October to December 1936 with an estimated budget of $1,173,639, and premiered in Los Angeles, California on April 27, 1937 at Grauman’s Chinese Theater. In New York, the film premiered at Radio City Music Hall. The scene in the film…

March 18, 2013 /

Dorothy Parker arriving with husband Alan Campbell in 1936 – looks like it was a bumpy flight: The pair were under contract to Paramount. She to write and he to write and act. Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, and Robert Carson collaborated on the screenplay, “A Star is Born” (1937).