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Plot: "Come on, Oscar--let's you and me get drunk." This caustic Bette Davis line is not aimed at a co-star but at the Academy Award itself, which down-on-her-luck actress Margaret Elliot cradles bitterly a...( read more read more... )t the beginning of an inebriated evening. As you can guess, Davis is at full-throttle in his ripe melodrama, which came a couple of years after All About Eve and serves as a kind of less-classy companion piece to that classic. As the movie begins, Margaret has lost her career and family because of her own demanding nature. Rescued by a roughhewn boatbuilder (Sterling Hayden) she once befriended, she confronts what's most important--being a star, or being a (ahem) woman.

The rickety script and cut-rate production values betray The Star as a product of Davis's post-Warners wanderings. It does have some sunny location shots of San Pedro, plus a young Natalie Wood before she broke out of child-star roles. But the biggest draw, other than Davis, is the Hollywood behind-the-scenes juice, and the guessing game of how close the material was to Davis's own career (rumor has it the character, who wants to glamorize herself for a supporting part as a slatternly housemaid, was based more on Joan Crawford). It ain't art, but it's an artifact of a different era, skipping between backstage expose and camp. --Robert Horton

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  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    June 24, 2007
    Somehow, Bette Davis's own story. Her performance was fantastic (but duh, it's Bette bloody Davis), but the story is just another over-worked "inside" look at Hollywood's culture to the youth. And, the ending was a little too 50's for me, but other than that, a fun film to watch, compare and analyze (did I mention Natalie looks adorable in it?)
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    May 3, 2007
    Maybe less witty than All About Eve, but still a Davis tour-de-force! The scene where she takes a drunken ride with her Oscar is hysterical and pure Davis. The scricpt was written by two very close ex-friends of Joan Crawford and is reportedly based on her. All you have to do is watch Bette relishing sending her old nemesis up and that rumour becomes fact. Superb.

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  • Rated: (Unrated)
  • Directed by: Stuart Heisler
  • Genres: Drama, Classics
  • Released: December 11, 1952
  • DVD Released: June 14, 2005

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