Release Date: 1937-04-20
Overview: Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
Rating: 7.2 / 10
Janet Gaynor
as Esther Blodgett / Vicki Lester
Fredric March
as Norman Maine
Adolphe Menjou
as Oliver Niles
May Robson
as Lettie Blodgett
Andy Devine
as Danny McGuire
William A. Wellman - Director
David O. Selznick - Producer
W. Howard Greene - Director of Photography
Dorothy Parker - Screenplay
Alan Campbell - Screenplay
Janet Gaynor was at the top of her game with the almost Dickens' inspired name "Esther Blodgett" - an aspiring actress who moves to Hollywood and happens upon a drunken, self-destructive "Norman Maine...