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1976
A Star Is Born is a 1976 American musical romantic drama film directed by Frank Pierson, written by Pierson, John Gregory Dunne, and Joan Didion. It stars Barbra Streisand as an unknown singer and Kris Kristofferson as an established rock and roll star. The two fall in love, only to find her career ascending while his goes into decline.
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Among the many cinematic triumphs that have failed to withstand the test of time, the 1976 iteration of *A Star Is Born* stands as one of the more conspicuous casualties of shifting cultural tides. This second remake of William A. Wellman’s 1937 Hollywood melodrama was, by any commercial metric, a phenomenon: the year’s second highest-grossing film, a Golden Globe juggernaut, and the vehicle that secured Barbra Stre…More
