A Star Is Born is a 1937 American Technicolor romantic drama film produced by David O. Selznick, directed by William A. Wellman from a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, and starring Janet Gaynor as an aspiring Hollywood actress, and Fredric March as a fading movie star who helps launch her career. The supporting cast features Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine, Lionel Stander and Owen Moore.

It was later remade three times: in 1954 starring Judy Garland and James Mason, in 1976 starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson and in 2018 starring Stefani Germanotta and Bradley Cooper.