“A Star is Born.” —With Janet Gaynor and Fredric March.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20247, 16 July 1937, Page 4

“A Star is Born.” —With Janet Gaynor and Fredric March.

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Janet Gaynor and Fredric Marcl recently lived over again some of tht most thrilling moments of their careers as motion picture stars as a make-believe scene on a make-believe set recalled what had happened to each in real life. The petite actress and handsome

actor attended the annual award dinner of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dinner-jacketed musicians played soft love ballads. Beautifully-gowned women and tastefully garbed escorts sipped cocktail* in the lavishly-decorated room. There \vere speeches of praise, and loud applause. All of it, however, occurred on a sound stage at Selznick International Studio, for a scene In the technlcolour picture, “ A Star Is Born," in which Miss Gaynor and March arc costarring. Every detail of the Academy dinner was duplicated, even to tha prized golden statuettes awarded annually. The scene depicted Miss Gaynor, in her role as a movie star, receiving an award, and to her It seemed very real. “It was easy to swing Into the action," she said, “ because I can never forget the time it happened In real life. It Is one of my fond memories." She referred, of course, to the time when she had emerged from “ Seventh Heaven,” the reigning star of the screen, and for her work received the greatest honour the industry can bestow. The setting used for the David O. Selznick picture scene Is a copy of the Biltmore Bowl, and Is the same exact size. A fifteen-piece orchestra, conducted by Manny Harmon, was engaged for the music, while mori than 250 extras, men and women, were used to duplicate the gaiety o! the annual award dinner. ** A Stai Is Born " was directed by William A. Wellman, and is released through United Artists.