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Released
1937 · FILM

A Star Is Born

“Is the price of stardom a broken heart?”

Directed by
William A Wellman
Written by
Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell
Runtime
111 min
DramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Esther Blodgett is a hopeful young woman from the countryside, determined to make it in Hollywood. While working as a waitress at a party in the city, she attracts the attention of her film idol, Norman Maine. He arranges for her to have a screen test, and she quickly rises to fame under the new name Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, but his career begins to decline as his struggles with alcoholism take their toll.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 25

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Hal C KernShot by W Howard GreeneScored by Max SteinerDesigned by Lansing C Holden

Box Office

1937 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.0× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.4M

Budget$1.2M
Worldwide gross$2.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Ein Stern geht aufde
  • Une étoile est néefr
  • È nata una stellait

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