The Star

Name: The Star
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: December 11, 1952
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 54
Cast: Barbara Lawrence, Bette Davis, Fay Baker, June Travis, Minor Watson

1952

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Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: December 11, 1952 | Passed

Starring: Barbara Lawrence, Bette Davis, Fay Baker, June Travis, Minor Watson, Natalie Wood, Paul Frees, Robert Warwick, Sterling Hayden, Warner Anderson

Summary: A washed-up movie queen finds romance, but still desires a comeback.

Director: Stuart Heisler

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: Passed

Runtime: 89 min

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Louis R. Carlozo

Stuart Heisler's fascinating (but not biographical) backstage Hollywood drama about a fading Oscar-winning actress, co-starring Sterling Hayden and Natalie Wood. [19 Jul 2005, p.C3]

Bosley Crowther

Even though redundant and familiar, as this performance inevitably is, with its obviously patterned reproduction of a caustic and vanity-ridden dame, Miss Davis still makes it sizzle with stinging sarcasm and feminine fire, so that it gives the illusion of emerging as a shaft of withering light from Hollywood. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

THE STAR would have been a much better film if all its loose ends had been gathered. As it is, the ending is too curt and too convenient to bring the tale to a close with a ring of truth. Read full review

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A strong performance by Bette Davis, in a tailor-made role, gives a lift to The Star that it might not have had otherwise. Read full review

Dan Callahan

A threadbare, bargain-basement Sunset Boulevard, The Star features Bette Davis as Margaret Elliot, a washed-up actress hellbent on continuing her movie career. Read full review

Pauline Kael

Very bad...Davis throws her weight around but comes through in only a few scenes.

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