A Star is Born : William A. Wellman, Ja Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou: Movi & TV
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JA GAYNOR(1906-1984)
A look back at all the var stars that have been born, cludg Judy Garland, Ja Gaynor, and Barbra Streisand. * a star is born janet gaynor *
A Star Is Born (1937)Ja Gaynor and Fredric March brought this tragedy of squanred potential and volatile self-loathg to the era of glor Technilor wh the first take unr the famed name, this time pairg off as an genue and fadg actor rather than director. ” Of the st, the publitn led, “Ja Gaynor giv to her role … a characterizatn of staed lovels” and that “she is equally as good the edy passag, ” while Fredric March “creat a fely drawn portra of weakns whout vicns.
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Ja Gaynor. Actrs: A Star Is Born. Ja Gaynor was born Lra Gaor on October 6, 1906, Philalphia, Pennsylvania. As a child, she & her parents moved to San Francis, California, where she graduated om high school 1923. She then moved to Los Angel where she enrolled a secretarial school. She got a job at a shoe store for the prcely sum of $18 per week. However,..." data-id="ma * a star is born janet gaynor *
" Norman Mae (played by Fredric March) asks this of Esther Blodgett (Ja Gaynor) as he says good night on the eveng of their first meetg the 1937 movie A Star Is Born.
Ironilly, the leads of the 1937 film were livg circumstanc oppose their characters: March's star was on the rise while Gaynor, an Osr wner the 1920s, found her box office appeal wang and had recently left her ntract at 20th Century Fox. He phed for Gaynor, wh whom he had recently ma Small Town Girl.
March and Gaynor brg a lived- qualy to their rol that mak their characters more real, whereas wh Judy Garland ( the 1954 versn), Barbra Streisand (1976), and Lady Gaga (2018), we get the sense we're watchg the real-life stars terrogate their own fame. Gaynor, a talented mimic, has a lightful sequence which she attempts to imprs Hollywood brass wh her imprsns of Greta Garbo, Mae Wt, and Kathare Hepburn while workg a terg gig.