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A Star Is Born

Academy Award Theater · June 29, 1946 · 29 min · 4,023 words

The transcript of “A Star Is Born”, an episode of Academy Award Theater first broadcast June 29, 1946. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Academy Award Theater plays Academy Award Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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and Squibb presents Academy of Law. Every week, Squibb brings you Hollywood's finest. The great picture plays, the great actors and actresses. Techniques and skills chosen from the honor roll of those who have won or been nominated for the famous golden Oscar of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

And now, he are Squibb and Sons, manufacturing chemists for the medical profession since 1858, brings you the distinguished star, Mr. Frederick March, who has three times been nominated as Best Actor of the Year, and in 1931 won the Academy Award.

You will hear Mr. March in one of the most famous of all Academy Award winning pictures, that great drama of Hollywood are Star is Born, which as Best Original Story won the 1937 Academy Award.

Thank you, low-heaves, speaking across the lobby of my little Hollywood hotel. High heels, low heels that have come from all over America to win a plate in the movies. Anything for me, Pop? Anything for Esther Blodgett?

Yes, Blodgett. Well, let me see. Nope, nothing. How was the luck today? Good work, Danny. Maybe you don't go at it right. Now you take Denny McGuire here. He knows the roof. Don't you, Danny?

Oh, I had him around my neck for years. Miss Blodgett, Mr. McGuire. Mr. McGuire works in pictures. When he works, how are you? I'm not working at all. I'm just beginning to think I'll never get a job. I guess I'm beginning to get a little scared.

Uh oh. Well, there's only one thing to do for that feeling. When you're tired and sunk in down to your last nickel. Come on, I'll buy you a drink. You feel better, Esther? Yes, Danny. And when I sign my contract, the first thing I'm going to do is to see the two direct.

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