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Judy Garland had no better showcase of her formidable singing and acting talent than as the title star of this moving, memorable classic directed by George Cukor. As a band singer discovered and guided to heights of show-business success by an alcoholic ex-matinee idol (James Mason), she performs one superb song after another (most by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin) in a production that exhilarates with it's craft and style even as it's story moves toward a heartbreaking finale. Shortened after it's 1954 premiere and reconstructed to near it's original length in 1983, A Star Is Born endures as one of Hollywoods supreme triumphs.