You are listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast, and this is our podcast review of the

1937, 1954, and 1976 versions of the Star is born.

Oh, you lies the most glamorous city on Earth, Hollywood, California, a city where men and women

skyrocket to fame or punch to oblivion. What happens amid the glamour of such famous gathering places as the Ambassador Poole?

The Trocadero on the gold coast of the film city.

At the Brown Derby where famous stars meet or in the gay setting of Santa Nita Park.

It's all a part of fantastic Hollywood. Hollywood at playtime.

Here behind the walls of Selznick International Studio, we see Hollywood at work. A new

Janet Gaynor is in the making. A Janet Gaynor never before seen on the screen. Co-starring is

Frederick Munch, more likable, more swashbuckling than ever before. And now we take you behind

the scene. Director William A. Wellman is guiding Janet Gainer and Frederick Munch, as they will appear in the

David O. Selsnick Technicella production, A Star is Born. All right, everyone, you were just listening

to the trailer for A Star is born, and the story for the 1937 version is as follows. When a young

actress arrives in Hollywood with hopes of stardom, a chance encounter

places her under the wing of an older actor named Norman Maine. Adopting the stage

named Vicki Lester, she co-stars with Norman in a major motion picture, but his success is

clearly fading even as her career begins.

After the couple wed, Vicky's fame continues to grow,

but Norman descends into alcoholism,

and she must decide between pursuing her dream and caring for him.

This film from, like I said, 1937,

I got to keep preface by saying that because this is our first

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