The Star
- Original title
- The Star
- Year
- 1952
- Running time
- 89 min.
- Country
United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Music
- Cinematography
Ernest Laszlo (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Film In Film. Old Age / Elderly
- Synopsis
- Margaret Elliot is a bankrupted washed-up Hollywood Oscar winning star living in the past and not accepting the reality. After another great deception trying to get her career back, she gets drunken and is jailed. She is bailed out by Jim Johannson, a young actor promoted by her that gave up the career to buy a repair shipyard. Jim loved her and tries with Margaret's daughter Gretchen to make Margaret see that her glorious days of Hollywood star are over, and she shall live in the real world like a common human being.
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- Awards
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1952: Nominated for Oscar: Best Actress (Bette Davis)
- Critics' reviews
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"Very bad...Davis throws her weight around but comes through in only a few scenes."
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