The Star
1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Margaret Elliot is a bankrupted washed-up Hollywood Oscar winning star living in the past and not accepting the reality. After another great deception trying to get her career back, she gets drunken and is jailed. She is bailed out by Jim Johannson, a young actor promoted by her that gave up the career to buy a repair shipyard. Jim loved her and tries with Margaret's daughter Gretchen to make Margaret see that her glorious days of Hollywood star are over, and she shall live in the real world like a common human being.
Direction Stuart Heisler
Cast Bette Davis · Sterling Hayden · Natalie Wood · Warner Anderson · Minor Watson · June Travis
Soundtrack Victor Young
Screenplay Katherine Albert · Dale Eunson
Cinematography Ernest Laszlo
Original title The Star
6.7
335 votes (FilmAffinity)
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