By Signal Staff
This is the “A Star Is Born” that started it all: The 1937 classic that spawned three remakes — in 1954, 1976 and 2018 — comes to Santa Clarita Valley residents’ screens this weekend as Buzz Classic Movies presents a Saturday night showing of the original “A Star Is Born.”
The film has earned a 100% “fresh” rating from the critics based on 24 reviews, and a 75% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes’ “Popcornmeter” based on more than 2,500 ratings.
“When a young actress (Janet Gaynor) arrives in Hollywood with hopes of stardom, a chance encounter places her under the wing of older actor Norman Maine (Fredric March),” says the Rotten Tomatoes summary of the movie. “Adopting the stage name Vicki Lester, she co-stars with Norman in a major motion picture, but his success is clearly fading even as her career begins. After the couple wed, Vicki’s fame continues to grow, but Norman descends into alcoholism, and she must decide between pursuing her dream and caring for him.”
Critic Sean Axmaker, writing for Stream on Demand in 2025, described the film as “the quintessential show-biz drama, a grand fable of Hollywood stardom done up with romantic glamour and tragic melodrama and a cynical undercurrent of caustic wit.”
“A Star Is Born” streams at 8 p.m. Saturday on The Signal’s streaming channel, The Buzz, available at buzzscv.com as well as streaming platforms including Roku and Apple TV.
