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Star!
Drama, Music, Romance
Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy lavish old-Hollywood show-business biographies centered on charismatic performers and the emotional cost of ambition.
- Tone
- nostalgic, bittersweet, sentimental
- Payoff
- catharsis, heartbreak
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- ambition, fame, performance, personal sacrifice, love
- Setting
- early twentieth century, international theater circuits and glamorous stage venues