The Star (1952) |
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AwardsBest Actress in a Leading Role Academy Awards [1953] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Plot SummaryAn actress who once knew the heights of fame is forced to confronts the depths of defeat in this show business drama. Margaret Elliot (Bette Davis) was once one of Hollywood`s great stars, but as she edges into her 50`s, both her career and her life ... TaglineThe story of a woman...who thought she was a star so high in the sky no man could touch her! |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Jim Johannson aka Barry Lester: [while at the zoo, a seal is barking loudly] Listen to that seal!
Margaret Elliott: Sounds like my brother-in-law! Margaret Elliott: If you`re a star you don`t stop being a star. Margaret Elliott: Haven`t you ever cried because you`re happy?
Gretchen: No.
Margaret Elliott: Well, you see, some people cry when they`re happy and laugh when they`re mad. Peggy Morgan: Is it money? Do you want more from John?
Margaret Elliott: More money? I never asked Johnny for money.
Peggy Morgan: He`s given you $2500 over the past two years.
Margaret Elliott: Well, I gave gim $ 25.000 when I divorced him so he could marry you. [to an Oscar statuette]
Margaret Elliott: Come on, Oscar, let`s you and me go get drunk!Trivia Fox starlet Barbara Lawrence`s presence is felt even though her actual screen time is brief. Besides her fleeting cameo appearance, she is referred to at least five other times as the young nemesis to Bette Davis` aging star. She is mentioned as an up-and-coming prospect by an agent, a drunken Davis drives by her house in a mock tour of stars` homes, her image appears in a drugstore ad that confronts Davis, Davis stops to stare at a huge portrait of Lawrence before entering her prospective producer`s office, and she spitefully uses Lawrence`s vacant dressing room to change alter her make-up before her screen test. For added Hollywood verisimilitude, references are made to other contemporaneous Fox stars including Victor Mature, Debra Paget, Mitzi Gaynor, and Jeanne Crain. Curiously there is a reference to an actor named Ralph Bellows, who`s playing the rich, stuffy second lead. This is an obvious reference to the screen persona of Ralph Bellamy, who was not under contract to Fox at the time. In the scene where a drunken Margaret Elliot takes her Oscar for a ride in her car, Bette Davis used one of her own Oscars. | ||
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