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Star! 1968

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 176 min

theme: biographical

director: Robert Wise

Score: 4 / 10

Star! (re-titled Those Were the Happy Times for its 1969 re-release) is a 1968 American biographical musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews. The screenplay by William Fairchild is based on the life and career of British performer Gertrude Lawrence.

Plot

The film opens in 1940, with Lawrence in a screening room watching a documentary film chronicling her life, then flashes back to Clapham in 1915, when she leaves home to join her vaudevillian father in a dilapidated Brixton music hall. Eventually she joins the chorus in André Charlot's West End revue. She reunites with close childhood friend Noël Coward, who provides witty commentary on Gertie's actions.

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author	William Fairchild
contentLocation	London New York City
director	Robert Wise
editor	William Reynolds
keywords	andré charlot baby birthday party brixton burlington bertie clapham documentary film financial ruin flashback flashes back hepatocellular carcinoma lady in the dark liver cancer music hall noël coward revue richard aldrich screening room stage manager supper club the king the king and i the saga of jenny theatre producer vaudeville vaudevillian west end west end theatre
musicBy	Lennie Hayton
nomination	Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Costume Design Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Sound Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
producer	Saul Chaplin
publisher	20th Century Fox
theme	biographical musical