A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Judy Garland
as Vicki Lester
James Mason
as Norman Maine
Jack Carson
as Matt Libby
Charles Bickford
as Oliver Niles
Tommy Noonan
as Danny McGuire
Lucy Marlow
as Lola Lavery
Amanda Blake
as Susan Ettinger
Irving Bacon
as Graves
Hazel Shermet
as Libby's secretary
James Brown
as Glenn Williams
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One cannot watch this nowadays without seeing parallels between the James Mason role as "Norman Maine" and Judy Garland's own later life. He is the falling star of Hollywood kept afloat by booze and the ceaseless efforts of his studio boss "Oliver Niles" (Charles Bickford) to keep him from complete ...