Read A Star Is Born: The Making of the 1954 Movie and Its 1983 Restoration Online
Authors: Ronald Haver
A hotel lobby.
Norman Maine's palatial home.
ABOVE: The first (Technicolor and standard screen) version of
"The Man That Got Away." BELOW AND RIGHT: The second
(CinemaScope and Eastmancolor) version. Note the changes in
Garland's costume and makeup. The final film used still a third
version, with yet another costume and makeup change (see
color insert following page 210).
Norman Maine returns to the Shrine Auditorium
to find the name of the orchestra that "the little
dark girl" was singing with.
Esther washing her hair in the
rooming house.
Norman Maine as a swashbuckling pirate.
Norman Maine and Vicki Lester plan their dre.
house at the Malibu beach.