Q 01/05

How many official film versions of A Star Is Born have been made, from the 1937 original to 2018?

A) Two

B) Four

C) Three

D) Five

Answer · why

B) Four

Four: 1937, 1954, 1976 and 2018, and between them they 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) Red-Headed Woman

D) Shanghai Express

Answer · why

A) What Price Hollywood?

What Price Hollywood? (1932) follows a waitress turned star and her self-destructing alcoholic mentor; RKO considered suing producer David O. Selznick...

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

Janet Gaynor played Esther Blodgett, a small-town girl who dreams of Hollywood; the role brought her a Best Actress nomination at the 1938 Academy Awa...

Q 04/05

The 1937 original was the first Best Picture nominee of 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

It was the first colour production nominated for Best Picture; shot in three-strip Technicolor, it also earned W. Howard Greene a special Academy plaq...

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

Vicki Lester is the name the studio invents for her; in the 1954 film Esther only learns it when she tries to collect her paycheck.