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Star! is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Wise released in USA on 22 october 1968 with Julie Andrews
Star! (1968)
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Add to a movie listStar! (re-release title: Those Were the Happy Times) is a 1968 American musical film starring Julie Andrews and directed by Robert Wise. The screenplay by William Fairchild is based upon the life and career of British performer Gertrude Lawrence.
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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.Actors
Julie Andrews
(Gertrude Lawrence)
Richard Crenna
(Richard Aldrich)
Daniel Massey
(Noël Coward)
Michael Craig
(Sir Anthony Spencer)
Robert Reed
(Charles Fraser)
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