A Star Is Born

On the data. Four films, one story, and no continuity at all. Each is a remake, so there is no order and nothing to catch up on. The outline is the same every time: a woman's career rises while the man who helped her declines into addiction, and it ends the same way in all four. What changes is the industry. The 1937 and 1954 versions are about Hollywood. The 1976 and 2018 versions are about music. The 1954 film has a complicated history. Warner Bros. cut roughly half an hour out of it after release and destroyed much of the removed footage. A 1983 restoration put back what could be found, using stills and the surviving soundtrack for scenes where the picture was gone. That version is the one to look for, and the joins are visible. The 1932 film What Price Hollywood? is the real origin. RKO considered suing over the 1937 film's similarities and decided not to. It is not counted as part of the series and it obviously is. The 2018 film was Bradley Cooper's first as a director and it drew an unusual amount of attention when it was not nominated in that category. There is no fifth version in production, though given the pattern of roughly one every twenty years, one is probably due.

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