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Those who remember the Janet Gaynor of "Sunny Side Up" (1929), and have been disappointed in her later vehicles, will find their faith has not been misplaced. In "A Star Is Born," Miss Gaynor finds opportunity to display her wide range of acting ability to the utmost, and Technicolor is most becoming to her appearance on the screen. She plays the part of the small town girl who goes to the film colony to make good, finally landing a job and a husband when she meets the studio big shot, Fredric March...
...candidate for the Derby, co-stars with Annabelle who also possesses a promising horse. Wings of the Morning. From this point the story itself is partially lost amid these attractions of Annabelle's personality and the beauties of the Irish countryside which are set off to great advantage in technicolor...
...does differ-as Esther Blodgett is supposed to differ from her competitors-in essentials. Trenchantly directed by William Wellman who, with Robert Carson, conceived the story from which Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell wrote the screen play, handsomely photographed in the Technicolor which its producer, David Oliver Selznick, is pioneering with increasingly fortunate results, it emerges as a brilliant, honest and unfailingly exciting picture which, in the welter of verbiage about Hollywood heretofore contributed by stage and screen, stands as the last word and the best...
...sanatorium to recover from the jitters; his fist fight with Niles's pressagent at Santa Anita race track, are related with superlative detachment. They lead up to the climactic scene in which sunset on the Pacific-a magnificent shot which is possibly the best individual justification of Technicolor yet seen on the screen-tempts Maine to an appropriately exhibitionistic suicide, leaving Esther to a Hollywood funeral in which an admirer steals her veil...
...picture itself is a simple pastoral of life in Ireland among thoroughbred horse breeders. Filmed entirely in technicolor, it presents a variety of picturesque scenes of the Irish countryside and comes to an exciting climax in the derby at Epsom Downs...