James Mason won the role of Norman Maine in this Judy Garland film after Cary Grant turned it down
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The Making of the 1954 Masterpiece A Star is Born starring Judy ...  Comprehensive study of the 1954 Judy Garland version of A Star Is Born, including the ... After attempting to provide a comeback for silent film star Clara Bow ... Cary Grant was the first choice for the pivotal role of Norman Maine  the ... feeling he wouldn't be right for the part, so James Mason got the role. ..... She turns 32.
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A Star Is Born (1954) - Articles - TCM.com  Norman Maine, a screen star whose alcoholism is beginning to interfere with his ... Cast: Judy Garland (Esther Blodgett/Vicki Lester), James Mason (NormanMaine), Jack ... Haver's search for missing scenes from the film, some illegally held ... ofA Star Is Born, with rapper-turned-actor Will Smith in the Judy Garland role.
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A Star Is Born (1954 film) - Wikipedia  A Star Is Born is a 1954 American musical film written by Moss Hart, starring Judy Garland and James Mason, ... Esther Blodgett is a talented aspiring singer with a band, and Norman Maine is a former ... remake of the 1937 film A Star is Born with his then-wife Judy Garland in the lead role. ..... Cary Grant: A Class Apart.
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A Star Is Born (1954) Starring: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack ...  Judy Garland - in her first screen role since being fired by M-G-M four years earlier ... James Mason is also genuinely moving as the doomed Norman Maine. ... Shortly after the premier in September of 1954 the executives at Warner Bros. ... the film and rumors of Grant and other famous actors who turned down the part often...
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A Star is Born | IndieWire  Apr 28, 2011 ... For Judy Garland, it was a great injustice, maybe because of that she didn't win the Academy Award. ... The movie is a dramatic work, not a film study class. ... and Cary Grant, James Stewart, Judy Holliday, etc. ... Granger says he was the first pick for Norman Maine role and that Moss Hart wrote it for him.
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I Could Go On Singing (1963) - Wikipedia  I Could Go On Singing is a 1963 musical drama film directed by Ronald Neame, starring Judy Garland (in her final film role) and Dirk Bogarde.
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Cary Grant and Mae West | The Sheila Variations  Jul 23, 2005 ... It was hard for men to be paired with Mae West, and still get a good manly ... BUT  She Done Him Wrong is interesting because of how Cary Grant handles her. ... says, Why don't you come up sometime, see me, I'll tell your fortune. ... This entry was posted in Actors and tagged Cary Grant, Mae West, Marc...
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Suspicion (1941 film) - Wikipedia  Suspicion (1941) is a romantic psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a ... For her role as Lina, Joan Fontaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1941. .... However, because Cary Grant was to be the killer and Joan Fontaine the person killed, the studio...
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Deep Focus Review - The Definitives - North by Northwest (1959)  Nov 19, 2009 ... Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, and Martin ... Concentrated into a singular form, a career's worth of Hitchcockian tropes inhabit North by Northwest. ... Both the information and Thornhill's name are abstract ideas, .... Marie Saint, who had won an Oscar four years prior for On the Waterfront.
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High Society | film by Walters [1956] | Britannica.com  Sinatra returned for High Society (1956), a musical remake of George ... (From left) James Stewart, Cary Grant, and Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia.
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The Oscar Quest: Best Actress  1934 | B+ Movie Blog  Aug 2, 2011 ... But of all the categories of 1934, this one is the most interesting. ... Claudette Colbert won, Norma Shearer finished 2nd, and Bette Davis finished 3rd (QED, ... And come Oscar time, when she got nomination buzz, Warners spitefully told people not to vote for her. ... Bette Davis, Of Human Bondage (write-in).
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Sophia Loren's Choice: Cary Grant or Carlo Ponti? | Vanity Fair  While stardom came naturally, she tells Sam Kashner, a legitimate name, family, and ... Later, Sophia recognized that in some sense she had married her father, yet .... when an Italian citizen in Milan brought a charge of bigamy against Ponti and a .... In May of 1982, Sophia began serving a 30-day jail term for tax evasion,...
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Cary Grant Movies on iTunes  ... including North By Northwest, Charade (1963), An Affair to Remember, and many ... with Mae West, at her request, in She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel.
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James Stewart, the Hesitant Hero, Dies at 89 - The New York Times  Jul 3, 1997 ... He died from a blood clot in his lung, The Associated Press reported. ... Cary Grant, John Wayne and Henry Fonda were larger than life, and because the ... one of the most popular movies ever made and a holiday staple on television. ... Joan Crawford, another co-star, praised Mr. Stewart as an ''endearing...
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ImagineMDD: The Philadelphia Story and Features of Romantic ...  May 1, 2014 ... C.K. Dexter-Haven (Cary Grant), Tracy's ex-husband, unexpectedly shows up at the Lords' .... In 1985, when Cary Grant presented James Stewart with his Honorary Oscar, he specifically .... This is my Contribution to the Romantic Comedy Blogathon, hosted by Lara at backlots and Vince at Carole & Co.
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Charade (1963)  The Blonde at the Film  Oct 21, 2014 ... Grant had also recently turned down the role of Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady ... He refused the part out of respect for Rex Harrison, who had created the ... agreed to play the part, but Columbia Studios wouldn't pay his rate. ... And that is how Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant ended up starring in this movie.
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The Jazz Singer (1952) - IMDb  Drama ... created 25 Nov 2010 ... Oscar Nominated Movies 1953 ... Drama | Music | Romance .... The 1927 version of movie was referenced in the Gene Kelly classic "Singing In The Rain", ... Remade as The Jazz Singer (1980) See more ...
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The actors who rejected famous roles in Hollywood films  Dec 14, 2015 ... But years later the actor admitted that he did not really understand the film. ... Sir Sean Connery turned down the chance to play Gandalf in the Lord of ... Cary Grant was urged to take the role of Ian Fleming's iconic 007 ... Leading actor Sean Connery took on the part of James Bond. .... 1200 characters left.
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The Summer Revival Spirit: Can I Get a Witness? - Screens - The ...  Jun 12, 1998 ... Criticized early and often for Cary Grant's over-the-top performance as ... Grant is almost too painful to watch - in the same way you watch one of your ... D: Delmer Daves; with Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Agnes Moorehead. ... the moment we sat on the TV-room couch together - I could tell from the...
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My Fair Lady: 50th Anniversary Edition is just loverly ...  Nov 6, 2015 ... Henry Higgins and a charming 20-year-old soprano from England, Julie ... Warner also tried to enlist Cary Grant to play Higgins, but the actor refused, appalled that ... Grant said he wouldn't even watch the film unless Harrison was cast. ... My Fair Lady was about glamour and style, says Grace Mirabella,...
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Cary Grant | The Man from Dream City | American Masters | PBS  May 25, 2005 ... One after another, the great ladies courted himIrene Dunne in The .... Men as far apart as John F. Kennedy and Lucky Luciano thought that ... The Thin Man and Twentieth Century and It Happened One Night changed American movies. ... Henry Fonda played roles similar to Grant's, and it isn't hard to...