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Widescreen Editions Star! WS Rare Uncut LaserDisc Andrews Crenna Massey Comedy

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Julie Andrews and Richard Crenna in...

Star!

( Catalog Number 118085 )
(2.20:1) (3 Sides) (CLV) (CC) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Complete Original Roadshow Version of Star!
Presented in its Original Widescreen Format
Digitally Mastered from the 65mm camera negative & Six Track Magnetic Stereo Soundtrack, Supervision of Director Robert Wise.
New Video Interviews and Running Audio Commentary
Featuring Julie Andrews, Daniel Massey, Richard Crenna, Robert Wise, Saul Chapman, Michael Kidd, and Many Other Creative Talents
Original Promotional Footage
Television Commercials & Behind-the-Scenes Production Featurette

Star!
1968 - 176 min. - Color
Genre: Musical

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
A musical biography of British music hall and Broadway star Gertrude Lawrence, STAR! is a convincing and entertaining film, featuring an impressive score. The immensely talented Julie Andrews plays Lawrence, a beautiful, headstrong, and fiercely independent woman who will do anything for her career (including leaving her daughter and husband). Her early adventures in the music hall chorus and her later involvement in British high society are chronicled in this lush film that, though it received several Academy Award nominations, was not appreciated by the public until some 30 years after its original showing, when it was rereleased. One of the most interesting, heartwarming, and perhaps most famous aspects of Lawrence's story was her lifelong friendship with playwright.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Touted by 20th Century-Fox as a follow-up to their enormously successful The Sound of Music, Star! reteams that earlier film's leading lady Julie Andrews and director Robert Wise. Andrews plays legendary musical comedy star Gertrude Lawrence, while Daniel Massey appears as Lawrence's friend, co-worker and severest critic Noel Coward (Massey's real-life godfather). The film jumps back and forth in continuity at times, its transitions bridged by fabricated newsreel footage; essentially, however, William Fairchild's script traces Lawrence's progress from ambitious bit actress to the toast of London and Broadway. Her success is offset by a stormy private life, which is given some ballast when she falls in love with an American financier (Richard Crenna). The film is way too long for its own good, though the musical set pieces --- especially the Andrews-Massey duets --- are superb. Julie Andrews welcomed the chance of playing a character as far removed from her goody-two-shoes heroine in Sound of Music as possible; Gertrude Lawrence was temperamental, sarcastic, profane and at times self-destructive, and Andrews makes a meal of the role. Unfortunately, Andrews' fans, conditioned by the Fox publicity machine to expect a continuation of Sound of Music, rejected her outright in this "new" characterization. Star! was a huge box-office bomb, so much so that Fox desperately attempted a shortened re-release under a misleading new title, Those Were The Happy Times. They weren't: it remained a financial disaster, though it has developed a loyal cult following in recent years. --- Hal Erickson

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Cast for Star!

Julie Andrews - Gertrude Lawrence
Richard Crenna - Richard Aldrich
Michael Craig - Sir Anthony Spencer
Daniel Massey - Noel Coward
Robert Reed - Charles Fraser
Bruce Forsyth - Arthur Lawrence
Beryl Reid - Rose
John Collin - Jack Roper
Alan Oppenheimer - Andre Charlot
Richard Karlan - David Holtzman
Lynley Laurence - Billie Carleton
Garrett Lewis - Jack Buchanan
Jenny Agutter - Pamela
Anthony Eisley - Ben Mitchell
Jock Livingston - Alexander Woollcott
J. Pat O'Malley - Dan
Lester Matthews - Lord Chamberlain
Bernard Fox - Assistant To Lord Chamberlain
Murray Matheson - Bankruptcy Judge
Robin Hughes - Hyde Park Speaker
Barbara Sandland - Mavis
Ellen Plasschaert - Moo
Ann Hubbell - Beryl
Dinah Anne Rogers - Molly
Elizabeth St. Clair - Jeannie Banks
Roy Scheider - No credit
Matilda Calnan - Dorothy
Peter Church - Newsreel Narrator
Conrad Bain - Salesman at Cartier's
Richard Angarola - Cesare
Damian London - Jerry Paul
Anna Lee - Hostess
Don Crichton - Gertrude's "Limehouse Blues" Dance Partner
Jeanette Landis - Eph
Harvey Jason - Bert

Crew for Star!

Robert Wise - Director
Saul Chaplin - Producer / Composer (Music Score)
William Fairchild - Screenwriter
Ernest Laszlo - Cinematographer
Sammy Cahn - Composer (Music Score)
Nol Coward - Composer (Music Score)
Buddy G. DeSylva - Songwriter
Douglas Furber - Composer (Music Score)
George Gershwin - Composer (Music Score)
Ira Gershwin - Composer (Music Score)
Lennie Hayton - Musical Direction/Supervision / Composer (Music Score)
Gus Kahn - Composer (Music Score)
Michael Kidd - Composer (Music Score) / Choreography
Cole Porter - Composer (Music Score)
Bruce Siever - Composer (Music Score)
Jay Thompson - Songwriter
Jimmy Van Heusen - Composer (Music Score)
Walter Williams - Composer (Music Score)
William H. Reynolds - Editor
Boris Leven - Production Designer
Howard Bristol - Set Designer
Walter Scott - Set Designer
Donald Brooks - Costume Designer
Bernard Freericks - Sound/Sound Designer
Murray Spivack - Sound/Sound Designer
Willard Buell - Makeup
William Turner - Makeup
L.B. Abbott - Special Effects
Art Cruickshank - Special Effects
Emil Kosa, Jr. - Special Effects
Ridgeway Callow - First Assistant Director

Awards for Star!

Best Adapted Score (nom) Lennie Hayton 1968 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Howard Bristol 1968 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Walter Scott 1968 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Boris Leven 1968 Academy
Best Cinematography (nom) Ernest Laszlo 1968 Academy
Best Costume Design (nom) Donald Brooks 1968 Academy
Best Song (nom) Sammy Cahn 1968 Academy
Best Song (nom) Jimmy Van Heusen 1968 Academy
Best Sound (nom) (20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department) 1968 Academy
Best Supporting Actor (nom) Daniel Massey 1968 Academy
Best Actress - Musical or Comedy (nom) Julie Andrews 1968 Golden Globe
Best Original Song (nom) Jimmy Van Heusen 1968 Golden Globe
Best Original Song (nom) Sammy Cahn 1968 Golden Globe
Best Supporitng Actor (win) Daniel Massey 1968 Golden Globe
New Star of the Year - Male (nom) Daniel Massey 1968 Golden Globe

Feature Details

Title: Star!
Feature Release Date: 1968
Genre: Musical
Color: Color
Runtime: 176 Minutes
Chapters: 105
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 2.20:1
Playback Format: CLV

IMDB Info...

Technical Details

LD Release Date: 16 Aug 1995
Catalog Number: 118085
UPC: 086162118067
Manufacturer: Pioneer USA
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 3
Cover: Gatefold Jacket
Closed Caption: English
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: 118085
Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
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Mega-Rare Uncut, Widescreen, LaserDisc Movie

Near-Mint LaserDiscs and Gatefold Jacket with heavy edge-wear and several compressed corners

Julie Andrews and Richard Crenna in...

Star!

( Catalog Number 118085 )
(2.20:1) (3 Sides) (CLV) (CC) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Complete Original Roadshow Version of Star!
Presented in its Original Widescreen Format
Digitally Mastered from the 65mm camera negative & Six Track Magnetic Stereo Soundtrack, Supervision of Director Robert Wise.
New Video Interviews and Running Audio Commentary
Featuring Julie Andrews, Daniel Massey, Richard Crenna, Robert Wise, Saul Chapman, Michael Kidd, and Many Other Creative Talents
Original Promotional Footage
Television Commercials & Behind-the-Scenes Production Featurette

Star!
1968 - 176 min. - Color
Genre: Musical

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
A musical biography of British music hall and Broadway star Gertrude Lawrence, STAR! is a convincing and entertaining film, featuring an impressive score. The immensely talented Julie Andrews plays Lawrence, a beautiful, headstrong, and fiercely independent woman who will do anything for her career (including leaving her daughter and husband). Her early adventures in the music hall chorus and her later involvement in British high society are chronicled in this lush film that, though it received several Academy Award nominations, was not appreciated by the public until some 30 years after its original showing, when it was rereleased. One of the most interesting, heartwarming, and perhaps most famous aspects of Lawrence's story was her lifelong friendship with playwright.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Touted by 20th Century-Fox as a follow-up to their enormously successful The Sound of Music, Star! reteams that earlier film's leading lady Julie Andrews and director Robert Wise. Andrews plays legendary musical comedy star Gertrude Lawrence, while Daniel Massey appears as Lawrence's friend, co-worker and severest critic Noel Coward (Massey's real-life godfather). The film jumps back and forth in continuity at times, its transitions bridged by fabricated newsreel footage; essentially, however, William Fairchild's script traces Lawrence's progress from ambitious bit actress to the toast of London and Broadway. Her success is offset by a stormy private life, which is given some ballast when she falls in love with an American financier (Richard Crenna). The film is way too long for its own good, though the musical set pieces --- especially the Andrews-Massey duets --- are superb. Julie Andrews welcomed the chance of playing a character as far removed from her goody-two-shoes heroine in Sound of Music as possible; Gertrude Lawrence was temperamental, sarcastic, profane and at times self-destructive, and Andrews makes a meal of the role. Unfortunately, Andrews' fans, conditioned by the Fox publicity machine to expect a continuation of Sound of Music, rejected her outright in this "new" characterization. Star! was a huge box-office bomb, so much so that Fox desperately attempted a shortened re-release under a misleading new title, Those Were The Happy Times. They weren't: it remained a financial disaster, though it has developed a loyal cult following in recent years. --- Hal Erickson

Thanks for Visiting DaDon's !

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Cast for Star!

Julie Andrews - Gertrude Lawrence
Richard Crenna - Richard Aldrich
Michael Craig - Sir Anthony Spencer
Daniel Massey - Noel Coward
Robert Reed - Charles Fraser
Bruce Forsyth - Arthur Lawrence
Beryl Reid - Rose
John Collin - Jack Roper
Alan Oppenheimer - Andre Charlot
Richard Karlan - David Holtzman
Lynley Laurence - Billie Carleton
Garrett Lewis - Jack Buchanan
Jenny Agutter - Pamela
Anthony Eisley - Ben Mitchell
Jock Livingston - Alexander Woollcott
J. Pat O'Malley - Dan
Lester Matthews - Lord Chamberlain
Bernard Fox - Assistant To Lord Chamberlain
Murray Matheson - Bankruptcy Judge
Robin Hughes - Hyde Park Speaker
Barbara Sandland - Mavis
Ellen Plasschaert - Moo
Ann Hubbell - Beryl
Dinah Anne Rogers - Molly
Elizabeth St. Clair - Jeannie Banks
Roy Scheider - No credit
Matilda Calnan - Dorothy
Peter Church - Newsreel Narrator
Conrad Bain - Salesman at Cartier's
Richard Angarola - Cesare
Damian London - Jerry Paul
Anna Lee - Hostess
Don Crichton - Gertrude's "Limehouse Blues" Dance Partner
Jeanette Landis - Eph
Harvey Jason - Bert

Crew for Star!

Robert Wise - Director
Saul Chaplin - Producer / Composer (Music Score)
William Fairchild - Screenwriter
Ernest Laszlo - Cinematographer
Sammy Cahn - Composer (Music Score)
Nol Coward - Composer (Music Score)
Buddy G. DeSylva - Songwriter
Douglas Furber - Composer (Music Score)
George Gershwin - Composer (Music Score)
Ira Gershwin - Composer (Music Score)
Lennie Hayton - Musical Direction/Supervision / Composer (Music Score)
Gus Kahn - Composer (Music Score)
Michael Kidd - Composer (Music Score) / Choreography
Cole Porter - Composer (Music Score)
Bruce Siever - Composer (Music Score)
Jay Thompson - Songwriter
Jimmy Van Heusen - Composer (Music Score)
Walter Williams - Composer (Music Score)
William H. Reynolds - Editor
Boris Leven - Production Designer
Howard Bristol - Set Designer
Walter Scott - Set Designer
Donald Brooks - Costume Designer
Bernard Freericks - Sound/Sound Designer
Murray Spivack - Sound/Sound Designer
Willard Buell - Makeup
William Turner - Makeup
L.B. Abbott - Special Effects
Art Cruickshank - Special Effects
Emil Kosa, Jr. - Special Effects
Ridgeway Callow - First Assistant Director

Awards for Star!

Best Adapted Score (nom) Lennie Hayton 1968 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Howard Bristol 1968 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Walter Scott 1968 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Boris Leven 1968 Academy
Best Cinematography (nom) Ernest Laszlo 1968 Academy
Best Costume Design (nom) Donald Brooks 1968 Academy
Best Song (nom) Sammy Cahn 1968 Academy
Best Song (nom) Jimmy Van Heusen 1968 Academy
Best Sound (nom) (20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department) 1968 Academy
Best Supporting Actor (nom) Daniel Massey 1968 Academy
Best Actress - Musical or Comedy (nom) Julie Andrews 1968 Golden Globe
Best Original Song (nom) Jimmy Van Heusen 1968 Golden Globe
Best Original Song (nom) Sammy Cahn 1968 Golden Globe
Best Supporitng Actor (win) Daniel Massey 1968 Golden Globe
New Star of the Year - Male (nom) Daniel Massey 1968 Golden Globe

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