Drama Music Romance
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Directed by
George Cukor
Riza Royce
Secretary (uncredited)
Dub Taylor
Norman's Driver (uncredited)
Charles Watts
Harrison (uncredited)
James Mason
Norman Maine
Nancy Kulp
Esther's Neighbor (uncredited)
Al Hill
Shrine Auditorium Photographer (uncredited)
Tom Nolan
Child Dancer (uncredited)
Ruth Warren
Shrine Auditorium Reporter (uncredited)
Ron Nyman
Stage Manager (uncredited)
Tommy Noonan
Danny McGuire
Judy Garland
Vicki Lester
John Saxon
Movie Premiere Usher (uncredited)
Joseph Mell
Paymaster (uncredited)
Amanda Blake
Susan Ettinger
Olin Howland
Charley (uncredited)
George Becwar
Assistant Director (uncredited)
Frank Puglia
Bruno (uncredited)
Charles Morton
Shrine Auditorium Photographer (uncredited)
Strother Martin
Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Don Shelton
TV Director (uncredited)
Monty O'Grady
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Charles Bickford
Oliver Niles
Nacho Galindo
José Rodriguez (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
Benefit Comedy Team Member (uncredited)
Mort Mills
Makeup Artist (uncredited)
Leoda Richards
Party Guest (uncredited)
Carl M. Leviness
Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
Carey Loftin
Signboard Man (uncredited)
William H. O'Brien
Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
Barry Norton
Benefit Attendee (uncredited)
Joan Shawlee
Joan (uncredited)
Gertrude Astor
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Frank Ferguson
Judge George J. Barnes (uncredited)
Reginald Simpson
Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
Jean Willes
Fan at a Benefit Show (uncredited)
Barbara Pepper
Esther's Neighbor (uncredited)
Jack Carson
Matt Libby
Percy Helton
William Gregory (uncredited)
Mae Marsh
Malibu Party Guest (uncredited)
Harold Miller
Benefit Attendee (uncredited)
Irving Bacon
Graves
Richard Webb
Wallace (uncredited)
Willis Bouchey
McBride (uncredited)
Ruth Brady
Malibu Party Guest (uncredited)
James Brown
Glenn Williams
Dick Simmons
Producer / Benefactor (uncredited)
Don Beddoe
Studio Executive at Premiere (uncredited)
Frank Wilcox
Frank (uncredited)
Lauren Chapin
Little Girl at Boarding House (uncredited)
Helen Eby-Rock
Shrine Auditorium Reporter (uncredited)
Paul Bryar
Bartender at Racetrack (uncredited)
Chick Chandler
Man in Car at Diner (uncredited)
Jack Kenney
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Paul Brinegar
Man at Funeral (uncredited)
Charles Halton
Paymaster (uncredited)
Grady Sutton
Artie Carver (uncredited)
Rex Evans
Academy Awards Emcee (uncredited)
Loretta Russell
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Lucy Marlow
Lola Lavery
Grandon Rhodes
Producer at Premiere (uncredited)
Wilton Graff
Shrine Auditorium Emcee (uncredited)
Louis Jean Heydt
Ocean Scene Director (uncredited)
Philo McCullough
Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
Joseph Hamilton
Agent (uncredited)
Stuart Holmes
Spectator (uncredited)
Leonard Penn
Train Station Scene Director (uncredited)
Dale Van Sickel
Photographer in a Dressing Room (uncredited)
Sheila Bromley
Shrine Auditorium Reporter (uncredited)
Al Thompson
Vagrant (uncredited)
Jean Engstrom
Malibu Party Guest (uncredited)
Frank Marlowe
Shrine Auditorium Photographer (uncredited)
Tom Wilson
Stagehand Carrying Poles / Passerby Outside Hotel (uncredited)
Robert F. Hoy
Soundman (uncredited)
Arthur Space
Night Court Clerk (uncredited)
George Calliga
Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
Rudolph Anders
Mr. Ettinger (uncredited)
Charles Sherlock
Man Trying to Subdue Norman at Banquet (uncredited)
Mary Young
Boardinghouse Woman (uncredited)
Phil Arnold
Agent (uncredited)
Emerson Treacy
Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Fred Kelsey
Audience Member (uncredited)
Dick Johnstone
Spectator (uncredited)
Almeda Fowler
Malibu Party Guest (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
Ray (uncredited)
Geraldine Wall
Esther's Neighbor (uncredited)
Jack Mower
Benefit Attendee (uncredited)
Joe Dougherty
Makeup Artist (uncredited)
Eddie Dew
Assistant Director at Train Station (uncredited)
Josephine Whittell
Shrine Auditorium Reporter (uncredited)
Frank Kreig
Man at Funeral (uncredited)
Ralph Volkie
Courtroom Reporter (uncredited)
Kathryn Card
Landlady (uncredited)
Hazel Shermet
Libby's secretary
Louis Mason
Doorman (uncredited)
George Nardelli
Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
Timothy Farrell
Bailiff (uncredited)
Pat O'Malley
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Tom Cound
Price Waterhouse Man (uncredited)
John Alban
Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
Leon Alton
Usher (uncredited)
David Armstrong
Soundman (uncredited)
Nadine Ashdown
Esther (age 6) (uncredited)
Rodney Bell
Malibu Party Guest (uncredited)
Oscar Blank
Vagrant (uncredited)
Lennie Bluett
Dancer (uncredited)
Lulu Mae Bohrman
Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
Marshall Bradford
Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
Tex Brodus
Dancer (uncredited)
Benny Burt
Courtroom Reporter (uncredited)
Boyd Cabeen
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
John Carlyle
Assistant Director (uncredited)
Beth Carter
Dancer (uncredited)
Spencer Chan
Actor at Payroll Window (uncredited)
Beulah Christian
Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
Samuel Colt
Sammy the Stage Manager (uncredited)
Charles J. Conrad
Assistant Director (uncredited)
Oliver Cross
Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
Russell Custer
Courtroom Officer (uncredited)
Blythe Daley
Nora Fusselow (uncredited)
Havis Davenport
Paramount Starlet (uncredited)
Rudy Del Campo
Dancer (uncredited)
Harry Denny
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Alan DeWitt
Makeup Artist (uncredited)
Jack Ellis
Pinkerton Detective (uncredited)
Harry Evans
Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
Elizabeth Flournoy
Shrine Auditorium Reporter (uncredited)
Raoul Freeman
Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
Kenneth Gibson
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Joe Gilbert
Audience Member (uncredited)
Joseph Glick
Vagrant (uncredited)
Jack Gordon
Stagehand (uncredited)
Marion Gray
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Robert Haines
Second Assistant Director (uncredited)
Sam Harris
Benefit Attendee / Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
James Hyland
Assistant Announcer (uncredited)
Bob Jellison
Eddie (uncredited)
Jay Johnson
Musician (uncredited)
Arlene Karr
Malibu Party Guest (uncredited)
Tom Kingston
Reporter (uncredited)
George Kitchel
Reporter (uncredited)
Allen Kramer
Man (uncredited)
Henry Kulky
Cuddles (uncredited)
Richard LaMarr
Benefit Attendee (uncredited)
Paul Levitt
Malibu Party Guest (uncredited)
Robert Locke Lorraine
Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
Dorothy Martinson
Woman (uncredited)
Nita Mathews
Dancer (uncredited)
Ila McAvoy
Mother in "Born in a Trunk" Number (uncredited)
Jack McCoy
Father in "Born in a Trunk" Number (uncredited)
Don McKay
Dancer (uncredited)
Heidi Meadows
Esther (age 3) (uncredited)
Nolie Miller
Dancer (uncredited)
Patrick Miller
Shrine Auditorium Photographer (uncredited)
Todd Miller
Dancer (uncredited)
Wade Miller
Dancer (uncredited)
John Monaghan
Male Secretary (uncredited)
Hal J. Moore
Racetrack PA Announcer (uncredited)
Monette Moore
Blues Singer (uncredited)
Anton Northpole
Vagrant (uncredited)
Jack Pepper
Chef (uncredited)
Hilda Plowright
Shrine Auditorium Photographer (uncredited)
Mel Pogue
Autograph Hound (uncredited)
Murray Pollack
Benefit Attendee (uncredited)
Ezelle Poule
Shrine Auditorium Photographer (uncredited)
Don Richards
Shrine Auditorium Reporter (uncredited)
Kay Riehl
Hairdresser (uncredited)
Larry Rio
Soundman (uncredited)
Lotus Robb
Ms. Markham (uncredited)
Walter Rode
Courtroom Policeman (uncredited)
Patricia Rosemond
Dancer (uncredited)
Henry Russell
Studio Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Dick Ryan
Nightclub Man (uncredited)
Bernard Sell
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Patrick Sexton
Bert (uncredited)
Harry Seymour
Wheeler (uncredited)
Bert Spencer
Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
Buddy Spencer
Dancer (uncredited)
Eileen Stevens
Shrine Auditorium Reporter (uncredited)
Robert Stevenson
Boom Operator (uncredited)
Robert Strong
Courtroom Reporter (uncredited)
Kay Tapscott
Dancer (uncredited)
Wayne Taylor
Autograph Hound (uncredited)
Ted Thorpe
Soundman (uncredited)
Louis Tomei
Signboard Man (uncredited)
Valerie Vernon
Marian (uncredited)
Harte Wayne
Man at a Funeral (uncredited)
Duff Whitney
Reporter (uncredited)
Shirley Whitney
Malibu Party Guest (uncredited)
Eric Wilton
Charles (uncredited)
Stephen Wyman
Nigel Peters (uncredited)
Jack Cathcart

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