![]() ![]() Janet Gaynor in the first A Star Is Born. There are also a few repeated lines in each version, and always a scene in which the rising star’s first major awards win (at the Oscars in two versions and the Grammys in later ones) is ruined by her dissipated husband. ![]() In every version of A Star is Born, he meets the same end. The two fall in love and marry, and her success then becomes a problem for him. He connects her to the platform and contacts she needed, and she becomes a sensation almost overnight meanwhile, his career is bottoming out. Simultaneously a romance, a tragedy, and a rags-to-riches story with a magnetic young woman at its center, A Star is Born follows an essential arc that has, thus far, stayed the same: An aging male celebrity, hamstrung by his addictions, meets a talented, younger woman with whom he is instantly smitten. ![]() Spoilers for the basic plot of A Star Is Born, in all its iterations, follow. All iterations of the film - including the latest, directed by Bradley Cooper and starring Cooper and Lady Gaga - sing the same tune, but each version has new variations on the theme, flourishes and inversions that reinterpret the old story. Like a martini, or a bowl of chili, A Star Is Born is a staple that welcomes reinvention. ![]()
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