The Star

Academy Award-winning star Margaret "Maggie" Elliot (Bette Davis) is a bankrupt actress of a certain age struggling to accept her new non-wealthy reality. She is in denial, and confident she can somehow build herself up again and re-launch her career to its earlier brilliance. After suffering another big disappointment while vainly striving to get that last one good role, she gets drunk, is arrested for Driving under the influence, and spends a night in jail. She is bailed out by Jim Johannsen (Sterling Hayden), a younger former actor whom she had helped in the past. Jim, now comfortably settled as the owner of a boatyard, admits that he has loved her ever since those days and, helped by Margaret's daughter Gretchen (Natalie Wood), tries to help Margaret see that her big screen days as a famous actress are already over. She reluctantly tries to work as a saleswoman in an upscale department store, but overhearing some unkind gossip from two customers wounds her pride and she runs out. Her old agent manages to get her a screen test for a role in a film she'd always wanted to play. She is offered and takes a screen test for a supporting role, believing that if she plays that character as a sexy younger woman -- rather than the middle-aged frump she is seen as by the studio -- she might be able to win the more coveted lead role. It does not work out.

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  • TheTVDB.com Movie ID 60953
  • Status Released
  • Released Worldwide December 11, 1952
  • Content Rating United States of America NR
  • Runtime 89 minutes
  • Genres Drama
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
  • Spoken Languages English
  • Studio 20th Century Studios
  • Production Company 20th Century Studios Bert E. Friedlob Productions
  • Production Countries United States of America
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  • Box Office Worldwide $1,000,000
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