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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="2"><p>Laserdisc Review <font size="4"><br>A Star is Born</font> <br>by Gary Johnson</font> <font size=3 face="Book Antiqua,Century Schoolbook,Times New Roman"> <p><font size="6" color="#0000FF"><b>I</b></font>n 1954, for Warner Bros., she made one of the great silver screen comebacks in <i>A Star is Born</i>, a movie crafted as a grand-scaled vehicle for her unique talents. Working with George Cukor, a director especially adept at handling actresses, Judy Garland thrived. Not everyone was happy, though. Jack Warner saw a huge three-hour epic in the works. Theater operators complained: they'd only be able to have a single evening showing, instead of the customary two. So Warner ordered extensive edits. In addition, in order to bolster the movie's song-and-dance quotient, he ordered a new musical sequence to be filmed (not directed by Cukor), the lengthy "Born in a Trunk" number. <p><a href="default-nf.htm">Go to the review</a></font> </body>