A Star Is Born: How Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper Stack Up Against the Previous Casts

In the first remake of the film, The Wizard of Oz star Judy Garland revives the character of Esther Blodgett, who — rather than a North Dakota farm girl aspiring to be a Hollywood star — is now a small-time band singer who becomes a major movie superstar and takes on the stage name Vicki Lester.