A STAR IS BORN
Friday, February 28
3:00
Saturday, March 1
3:00
Tuesday, March 4
2:30
Co-written by the New Yorker humorist and critic Dorothy Parker.
U.S., 1937
Directed by William A. Wellman
With Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou
Screenplay by Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Robert Carson
WINNER Academy Awards® – Best Original Story, 1937
Approx. 111 min. DCP.
The original of the classic, with Janet Gaynor’s Vicki Lester rising to stardom, even as Fredric March’s boozing Norman Maine prepares for his climatic dip. Dorothy Parker and husband Alan Campbell’s most famous script, with Technicolor production by David O. Selznick.
Presented with support from the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film and the Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s
A STAR IS BORN
Introduced by New Yorker staff writer Emily Nussbaum
Friday, February 28
3:00