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Aspect Ratio: 2.20:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543113584
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 20, 2004
Running Time: 173 minutes
Sales Rank: 30987
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: October 22, 1968
Editorial Review:
Description:
Julie Andrews stars as British stage legend Gertrude Lawrence, a glamorous, flamboyant and charismatic personality - A woman who is both 'maddening and infuriating' and 'probably the most beautiful and entrancing creature ever to walk onto a stage.' Robert Wise's lavish musical recalls the golden era of musical theatre, from 1912 to 1940. Lawrence rise from irrepressible chorus girl in English music halls to become the toast of two continents. Her lifelong friend Noel Coward (Daniel Massey) provides witty commentary as Gertie finds company in a number of suitors, in search of a love to equal that of an audience.
Amazon.com:
For Julie Andrews fans, Star! will be something more than just a legendary albatross around Old Hollywood's neck--after all, Julie is onscreen virtually every minute of this film, singing and dancing and flouncing around in an endless parade of over-the-top costumes. Seeing her tackle a variety of Noel Coward tunes and a nicely understated 'Someone to Watch Over Me' is pleasant, but it's easy to see why this three-hour musical failed to click with 1968 audiences. A biopic of the celebrated stage star Gertrude Lawrence (puckish Daniel Massey plays Coward, Lawrence's childhood chum), the movie staggers around between the big production numbers. Its social message--independent Lawrence just needed a man to boss her around--was just as grating in the age of The Graduate as it is now. 'Isn't this kind of thing a little out of date?' someone asks the aging Lawrence; Star! provides its own answer. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Ignore the Critics.
It is very easy to focus on the fact that upon release, this film was a huge bomb. Indeed, many compare this film to Andrew's previous films, such as "The Sound of Music" and "Mary Poppins" which were wildly successful.
But this film is a different animal completely. The usual family friendly Julie Andrews goes against the grain and portrays Gertrude Lawrence as the selfish, difficult, magnetic woman she came to be.
The meat of this film is the endless parade of magical ... Read More
Rating:  - This DVD is a Travesty!
I am giving this DVD the full star rating because of it's content. The filmmakers had a hard time dealing with the fact that in reality it was not a friendship of two--Gertrude Lawrence and Noel Coward--but a friendship of three--Gertie, Noel, and Beatrice Lillie! Bea Lillie would only give permission to show her likeness if she could play herself. She was at least forty years too old at the time! Besides that, this film is by far one of the three best films Julie Andrews has EVER made--along with ... Read More
Rating: - Thank God ,They Still made Movies Like This ! Great!
This special film is finally getting the attention it deserves! A showing in NYC recently sold out, and a new print in 70mm was recently screened in England! Great musical numbers and of course lovable JULIE! Has anyone seen the cut version, Those Were The Happy Times" much shorter but just as good! Love it! My favorite film! The poster also looks great framed!
Rating: - ONE OF THE LAST SUPERBLY CRAFTED MUSICALS OF THE LATE SIXTIES!
STAR! is a magnificent film. Every bit of the $14 million spent on the production is seen on screen. Robert Wise didn't just make a great movie: He made one of the greatest film musical of the late '60s. So why did STAR! fail at the box office, despite the high quality of the finished film?
After MY FAIR LADY and THE SOUND OF MUSIC earned endless amounts of money and awards, Hollywood believed that the general public wanted musicals, musicals and more musicals. The bigger, the better. Everywhere ... Read More
Rating: - A Star Shines in the Universe
"Star" is a film that takes the viewer on a trip down "memory lane" with a flawless performance by
Julie Andrews and cutting edge direction by Robert
Wise. The story which touches on the literary and artistic world of the 20th century brings to the
screen Noel Coward, (which we wanted to see more of)
and Alexander Woollcott, and his colleaques at the
Algonquian Round Table who brought to the screen a sense of De ja vu that personified the spirit of the times.
Ms. Andrews ... Read More
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