Before Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, Judy Garland and James Mason, or Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, there were Constance Bennett and Lowell Sherman.
The movie was called What Price Hollywood, but it really was the first version of A Star is Born, the classic tale of how stardom isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be.
This largely forgotten 1932 gem was one of the first major studio productions to dramatize the downside of show business, and in many ways, it’s a more honest and realistic look at the Hollywood machine than any of the films that came afterward.
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