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http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/18/1688181/a-star-is-reborn-high-definition.html

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Audiences don't usually jump out of their chairs and cheer when a movie star's name is projected on the big screen -- especially when the movie is 56 years old and
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Her other films at MGM included a series of backyard musicals with co-star Mickey Rooney and Meet Me in St. Louis in 1944, directed by Vincente Minnelli, who later became her second husband. After making more than 25 feature films in 13 years, the studio fired her in 1950 following a string of illnesses and breakdowns.

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A year later, Garland made big stage comebacks at the London Palladium and Palace Theatre on Broadway. She won a special Tony Award in 1952.
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``The original negative was the source for the film transfer,'' says Feltenstein, Warner's senior vice president for theatrical catalog marketing. ``The production design in the film is astounding. Gorgeous. The [unrestored] film was always a grimy, mousy brown. Now it looks great.''

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Garland's performance as Esther Blodgett (aka Mrs. Norman Maine), whose show-biz career skyrockets while her movie-star husband's collapses, earned an Oscar nomination. Her unexpected loss to Grace Kelly in The Country Girl prompted Groucho Marx to call it ``the biggest robbery since Brinks.''

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When A Star is Born briefly played in its original length, critics called it ``the Gone With the Wind of musicals,'' according to Garland historian John Fricke, who wrote text for a book bound into the Blu-ray jacket.