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Lakeshore Classic Movies
A Star is Born
Season 2023
Episode 147
Esther Blodgett (Janet Gaynor), a young actress who rises to fame with the help of Norman Maine (Fredric March), a fading movie star battling alcoholism. As her career flourishes, their romantic relationship is tested by his declining fortunes and self-destruction. Directed by William A. Wellman, this poignant drama captures the bittersweet pursuit of dreams in Hollywood.
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Film noir with painter (Edward G. Robinson) caught in the web of a pretty, young woman.
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Assassin Frank Sinatra takes a widow and her family hostage in a small California town.
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Film adaptation of the prize-winning play about life in the village of Grover’s Corners.
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Paul Robeson faces the harsh realities of life as a coal miner in his Welsh community.
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Abbott and Costello’s fairy tale about a boy who trades family cow for some magic beans.
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Laurel & Hardy are nursery-rhyme characters who come and go in a surreal fantasy.
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Buster Keaton works father’s Mississippi riverboat in comic masterpiece of the silent era.
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Politician is haunted by his past when a blackmailer threatens to reveal his secret.
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Carole Lombard brings home ‘forgotten man’ William Powell to be her family’s new butler.
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WWII veteran (Van Johnson) meets young socialite (Elizabeth Taylor) and falls in love.
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German aircraft attack a Ukrainian village and soon the town falls under Nazi occupation.