MUSICALS!: A Star is Born Double Feature (1954 & 1976)

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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of alcoholism, suicide, drug abuse, workplace abuse, workplace mistreatment, financial ruin, drowning, death in car accident, racism, sexism.

This week, we’re tackling a double feature for a story that’s almost as old as Hollywood itself. This movie’s such a Hollywood tragedy, it’s been made 4 different times in this title, and a good number of times as different scripts. But as we get into in this episode, we’re discovering that there might be a solid reason to remake this - because up until 2018, no one had gotten it right. One version has the right emotional balance, but is overlong, packed with too many performances, and was utterly destroyed by the studio. And one…well, one of these might just be the worst movie we’ve ever had to watch for this show. Get ready to be a star as we discuss the 1954 and 1976 versions of A Star is Born this week on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!

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Intro and outro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.

Excerpt taken from “Overture” from the original motion picture soundtrack to the film A Star is Born, written by Harold Arlen, composed by Ray Heindorf and performed by The Warner Bros. Orchestra. Copyright © Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Excerpts taken from the film A Star Is Born (1954) are © 1954 Warner Bros. All Rights Reserved.

Excerpt taken from “Love Theme from “A Star is Born” (Evergreen)” from the original motion picture soundtrack to the film A Star is Born (1976), written by Barbra Streisand and Paul Williams. © 1976 CBS, Inc. / ℗ 1976 CBS, Inc.

Excerpts taken from the film A Star is Born (1976) are © 1976, Renewed 2004 Warner Bros.

Excerpt taken from “Green Onions,” written by Al Jackson, Booker T. Jones, Lewis Steinberg and Steve Cropper, and performed by Booker T. & The M.G.s. ©1962 Atlantic Recording Corporation.

Excerpt taken from “Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky)” from the original motion picture score for Rocky, written by Ayn Robbins, Bill Conti, and Carol Connors. © United Artists Corp. MCMLXXVI ℗ MCMLXXVI United Artists Music And Records Group, Inc.