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Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Michael Craig, Daniel Massey, Robert Reed ... see more see more... , Bruce Forsyth , Beryl Reid , John Collin , Alan Oppenheimer , Richard Karlan , Lynley Laurence , Garrett Lewis , Jenny Agutter , Anthony Eisley , Jock Livingston , J. Pat O'Malley , Lester Matthews , Bernard Fox , Murray Matheson , Robin Hughes , Barbara Sandland , Ellen Plasschaert , Ann Hubbell , Richard Angarola , Conrad Bain , Don Crichton , Harvey Jason , Anna Lee , Dinah Anne Rogers , Roy Scheider , Elizabeth St. Clair , Peter Church , Matilda Calnan , Jeanette Landis , Damian London

Touted by 20th Century-Fox as a follow-up to their enormously successful The Sound of Music, Star! reteams that earlier film's leading lady Julie Andrews and director Robert Wise. Andrews plays legend... read more read more...ary musical comedy star Gertrude Lawrence, while Daniel Massey appears as Lawrence's friend, co-worker and severest critic Noel Coward (Massey's real-life godfather). The film jumps back and forth in continuity at times, its transitions bridged by fabricated newsreel footage; essentially, however, William Fairchild's script traces Lawrence's progress from ambitious bit actress to the toast of London and Broadway. Her success is offset by a stormy private life, which is given some ballast when she falls in love with an American financier (Richard Crenna). The film is way too long for its own good, though the musical set pieces -- especially the Andrews-Massey duets -- are superb. Julie Andrews welcomed the chance of playing a character as far removed from her goody-two-shoes heroine in Sound of Music as possible; Gertrude Lawrence was temperamental, sarcastic, profane and at times self-destructive, and Andrews makes a meal of the role. Unfortunately, Andrews' fans, conditioned by the Fox publicity machine to expect a continuation of Sound of Music, rejected her outright in this "new" characterization. Star! was a huge box-office bomb, so much so that Fox desperately attempted a shortened re-release under a misleading new title, Those Were The Happy Times. They weren't: it remained a financial disaster, though it has developed a loyal cult following in recent years. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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G, 2 hr. 52 min.

Directed by: Robert Wise

Release Date: October 22, 1968

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DVD Release Date: April 20, 2004

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  • jjnxn
    April 15, 2010
    jjnxn
    Julie's in fine form and some of the production numbers, especially Jenny, are eye popping but it's just too long.
  • andrewluse
    April 30, 2007
    andrewluse
    My favorite Julie Andrews musical, it's an epic, it's a bit longer than LOTR, and as the main review says, she's on screen all the time. This movie shows off her many talents, faces, voices, and dance moves. But the best of all is when she does the Saga of Jenny. This movie will ... read moremake you gay, or a lesbian depending on your sex.

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May 9, 2005
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November 4, 2005
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June 24, 2006
Derek Adams, Time Out

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