A Star Is Born (1937)
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A small-town girl comes to Hollywood determined to become a star and finds both love and ruin with Norman Maine, a fading matinee idol whose alcoholism accelerates as her career eclipses his.
Produced by David O. Selznick in early three-strip Technicolor, A Star Is Born set the template — and supplied the closing line, “This is Mrs. Norman Maine” — for every remake and knockoff Hollywood has made about itself since.
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