Star! (1968) | |
Director(s) | Robert Wise |
Producer(s) | Saul Chaplin |
Top Genres | Biographical, Musical |
Top Topics | Show Business, True Story (based on) |
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Star! Overview:
Star! (1968) was a Biographical - Musical Film directed by Robert Wise and produced by Saul Chaplin.
Academy Awards 1968 --- Ceremony Number 41 (source: AMPAS)
Award | Recipient | Result |
Best Supporting Actor | Daniel Massey | Nominated |
Best Art Direction | Art Direction: Boris Leven; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Howard Bristol | Nominated |
Best Cinematography | Ernest Laszlo | Nominated |
Best Costume Design | Donald Brooks | Nominated |
Best Music - Scoring | Adaptation score by Lennie Hayton | Nominated |
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Noel Coward:
Close personal relationships are bloody difficult, my darling but they do get easier with time. Loneliness gets harder.
Noel Coward: You can't decide what you want until you decide who you are.
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Noel Coward: You can't decide what you want until you decide who you are.
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During the cricket match in the alley, there is a line "If that was a googly, I'm a Chinaman". In cricket, a "googly" is type of delivery bowled by right-handed leg-spinner, where the ball moves into the batsman rather than away from him. It is also called a "wrong'un". (Note: left-handed spin bowlers are sometimes called "chinaman" bowlers.)
Apart from Richard Aldrich, a certain amount of dramatic license was taken with the men in Gertie's life. In the movie, her first, stage manager husband is called Jack Roper and is shown as not much older than her. In real life, his name was Frank Gordon-Howley and he was twenty years her senior. Her upper-class, Guardsman boyfriend was not called Sir Tony Spencer, but Captain Philip Astley; he later married Madeleine Carroll. And the Wall Street banker she met while on Broadway was named Bert Taylor, not Ben Mitchell as depicted here.
Daniel Massey plays Noel Coward, his own godfather.
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Apart from Richard Aldrich, a certain amount of dramatic license was taken with the men in Gertie's life. In the movie, her first, stage manager husband is called Jack Roper and is shown as not much older than her. In real life, his name was Frank Gordon-Howley and he was twenty years her senior. Her upper-class, Guardsman boyfriend was not called Sir Tony Spencer, but Captain Philip Astley; he later married Madeleine Carroll. And the Wall Street banker she met while on Broadway was named Bert Taylor, not Ben Mitchell as depicted here.
Daniel Massey plays Noel Coward, his own godfather.
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