Cinematography:
W. Howard GreeneComposer:
Max SteinerCast:
Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine, Lionel Stander, Owen Moore, Peggy Wood, Elizabeth Jenns, Edgar Kennedy, J.C. Nugent (more)VOD (2)
Plots(1)
Janet Gaynor portrays Esther Blodgett, a starry-eyed small town girl with a dream of making it big in Hollywood. Facing only rejection, Esther chances into meeting movie idol Norman Maine played by the incomparable Fredric March. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
![Sidney Bracey](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/460/160460594_5d16c0.jpg)
Sidney Bracey
Australia
Best movies:
Sunrise (1927)
The Cameraman (1928)
Freaks (1932)
![Helene Chadwick](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/503/160503500_e95b77.jpg)
Helene Chadwick
USA
Best movies:
San Francisco (1936)
The Call of the Wild (1935)
Morning Glory (1933)
![Claude King](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/605/160605867_025c78.jpg)
Claude King
UK
Best movies:
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
If I Were King (1938)
![Armand Kaliz](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/439/160439943_d129ea.jpg)
Armand Kaliz
France
Eric Alden
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
![Eddie Kane](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/883/160883327_9faa18.jpg)
Eddie Kane
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
![Ferdinand Munier](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/894/160894456_dace39.jpg)
Ferdinand Munier
USA
Best movies:
It Started with Eve (1941)
Midnight (1939)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Rex Evans
UK
Best movies:
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Lust for Life (1956)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
![Edwin Maxwell](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/995/160995623_fe923a.jpg)
Edwin Maxwell
Ireland
Best movies:
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Fury (1936)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
![Matty Kemp](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/741/160741852_97f766.jpg)
Matty Kemp
USA
Best movies:
City Streets (1931)
A Star Is Born (1937)
![Lee Phelps](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/045/161045073_80d9c2.jpg)
Lee Phelps
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Fred Toones
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Dodge City (1939)
![Joe Gray](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/150/161150963_b6aacf.jpg)
Joe Gray
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
![Clarence Wilson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/518/160518463_23aa16.jpg)
Clarence Wilson
USA
Best movies:
Sunrise (1927)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
The Front Page (1931)
Robert Emmett O'Connor
USA
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Easter Parade (1948)
![David Newell](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/458/160458007_44d5b4.jpg)
David Newell
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
History Is Made at Night (1937)
Union Pacific (1939)
![Chris-Pin Martin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/582/166582991_882fac.jpg)
Chris-Pin Martin
USA
Best movies:
The Gold Rush (1925)
Captain Blood (1935)
The Crowd (1928)
![Buddy Messinger](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/532/161532037_10dad0.jpg)
Buddy Messinger
USA
Best movies:
Modern Times (1936)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Test Pilot (1938)
![Tom Ricketts](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/275/161275077_1b9ce5.jpg)
Tom Ricketts
UK
Best movies:
After the Thin Man (1936)
The Invisible Man (1933)
The Power and the Glory (1933)
Harvey Parry
USA
Best movies:
Beggars of Life (1928)
Raging Bull (1980)
The Killing (1956)