A Star Is Born

His work is beginning to interfere with his drinking.

A Star Is Born (1937 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

The program tonight's gonna be swell. Take this fella Beethoven: I'm a pushover for him. And Chopin - well, he's not so dusty, either.

A Star Is Born (1937 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Miss Phillips: Still want to go in the movies? You know what your chances are? One in a hundred thousand. Esther Blodgett: But maybe... I'm that one.

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Pop Randall: Mr. McGuire is a big director. Esther Blodgett: Oh, are you really? Oh, could you possibly use me in a picture, Mr. McGuire? Of course, I haven't had much experience, but I don't think that really matters if you're willing. And I really feel that... Danny McGuire: Listen, lady. In the first place, I'm not a director; I'm an assistant director. In the second place, if I had any jobs to give away, I'd confer one on myself. And in the third place, you should have stayed back home in the first place.

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Norman Maine: Do you think I'm slipping? Oliver Niles: Can you take it? Norman Maine: Yeah, go ahead. Oliver Niles: The tense is wrong. You're not slipping - you've slipped.

A Star Is Born (1937 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Matt Libby: That elopement thing is out; we're gonna have a wedding. Where are we going to have it? Oliver Niles: The customary place, I believe, is a church. Matt Libby: Nah! It's been done. This has gotta be something big... The beach! I can visualize it. The bridesmaids in bathing suits; twenty thousand Santa Monica school children spelling out the word "love"... but is it big enough?

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