Q 01/05

How many official film versions of A Star Is Born have been made?

A) Two

B) Four

C) Three

D) Five

Answer · why

B) Four

1937, 1954, 1976 and 2018; between them the four films earned 25 Oscar nominations but won only three.

Q 02/05

Which 1932 film's plot heavily inspired the original A Star Is Born?

A) What Price Hollywood?

B) Grand Hotel

C) Bombshell (1933)

D) Dinner at Eight

Answer · why

A) What Price Hollywood?

RKO considered suing David O. Selznick for plagiarism, and the 1932 film's director refused to direct the 1937 one because it was too similar.

Q 03/05

Who starred as Esther Blodgett in the 1937 original?

A) Jean Harlow

B) Carole Lombard

C) Constance Bennett

D) Janet Gaynor

Answer · why

D) Janet Gaynor

It was her only Technicolor film, and Fredric March played the fading star Norman Maine.

Q 04/05

The 1937 original was the first of its kind nominated for the Academy's top award. What kind?

A) A story about Hollywood

B) A colour production

C) A production with a female lead

D) A story scripted by a woman

Answer · why

B) A colour production

Dorothy Parker was among its writers, and its only win was for Best Original Story.

Q 05/05

What stage name does the studio give Esther Blodgett?

A) Vicki Lester

B) Ally Maine

C) Esther Hoffman

D) Mary Evans

Answer · why

A) Vicki Lester

In the 1954 version she only discovers her new name when she tries to collect her paycheck.