THE REGENT
“A STAR IS BORN.” A real gala Hollywood premiere, complete with pressing throngs, searchlights, radio announcer and celebrities is one of the thrilling highlights of “A Star Is Born,” David O. Selznick’s technicolour production co-starr ing Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, which will be shown at the Regent Theatre this evening at 7.-15 o’clock. Pictures of the Rugby Test at Christchurch are also to be shown. “A Star Is Born” casts Janet Gaynor as a little country girl who came to Hollywood in search of fame, faced crushing odds and made good. Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine and Lionel Stan-j der are prominently featured in this first up-to-the-minute story to bo filmed in technicolour, while others play-1 ing important roles are Owen Moore, Peggy Wood, Elizabeth Jenns, Edgar Kennedy, J. C. Nugent and Guinn Williams. Such world-famous Hollywood landmarks as the Trocadero,' Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, the Brown Derby and the Biltmore Bowl as it looks during the annual banquet of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, are shown in natural colour for the first time. Lyle Wheeler designed the settings and the costumes are by Omar Kiam. Lansing Holden is credited as colour designer. The photography is by W. Howard Greene and the music by' Max Steiner. “A Star Is Born” is released through United Artists. Reserves at W. G. Perry’s, ’phone 249 G.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 September 1937, Page 2
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