SCREENING
Star!
Ongoing
Dir. Robert Wise. 1968, 175 mins. 70mm. With Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Michael Craig, Daniel Massey, Robert Reed, Bruce Forsyth. With its succinctly confident title, Star! was Twentieth Century-Fox’s attempt to continue the success of the 1960s roadshow musical. An expansive biopic of Gertrude Lawrence, a celebrated English performer who rose up from music halls to become a famed fixture on the West End and Broadway, the production abounds with ambitious musical numbers, echoing the grand quality of other show business dramas such as The Great Ziegfeld and A Star Is Born. Though a box office disappointment—a sign of changing times in Hollywood from big studio productions to edgier, independent-minded fare—Star! is an underrated, underseen spectacle from movie musical legend Wise, reunited here with Julie Andrews just three years after The Sound of Music took the world by storm.
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