Read A Star Is Born: The Making of the 1954 Movie and Its 1983 Restoration Online
Authors: Ronald Haver
Composer Harold Arlen.
Ira Gershwin working on the lyrics.
LEFT: Mason, Garland, Sid
Luft, Cukor, and Gene Allen
on location. OPPOSITE:: Garland,
costume designer Irene Sharaff,
and assistant dance director
Jack Harmon on the set of
"Born in a Trunk."
Cukor directing Garland and Jack Carson.
Garland with choreographer
Richard Barstow.
Garland and musical director Ray Heindorf.
Cowboy star Guy Madison pays a visit.
Garland, Louella Parsons, and Sid Luft.
Doris Day, working on Lucky Me,
visits Garland and Mason.
RIGHT: Garland, Leslie Caron (center),
and Elizabeth Taylor on the set of
"Born in a Trunk," on the last day
of filming, July z8, 1954.
The set for the Downbeat Club.
Esther Blodgett/Vicki Lester's apartment at the Oleander Arms.