<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $6 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $80 million </Td> </Tr> <P> A Star Is Born is a 1976 American musical drama film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand, an easy listening folkie type ingenue who enters the music business, and meets and falls in love with an established male rock'n'roll star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ascending while his goes into decline . It is a remake of two earlier versions--the 1937 version was a drama starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, and the 1954 version was a musical starring Judy Garland and James Mason . It will be remade for a fourth time in 2018 starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper . </P> <P> John Norman Howard (Kris Kristofferson), a famous and self - destructive singer / songwriter rock star arrives late for a concert . He is drunk, sings a couple of songs, and walks off stage . John's entourage, including his manager Brian (Paul Mazursky), takes him to a bar where Esther Hoffman (Barbra Streisand) is singing . One of John's fans find him there and starts a fight . Esther grabs John and helps him escape out a back door . </P>

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