A Star Is Born

Is the price of stardom a broken heart?

A romantic tragedy about ambition and love in Hollywood, where a woman's rise to stardom is shadowed by her husband's decline into alcoholism and despair.

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.