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…