After Mattie berates her, Esther runs to her room in tears. Esther's Aunt Mattie disdains Esther's obsession with the movies, and her father and grandmother Lettie are surprised to hear that Esther wants to be a movie star.
A screenplay entitled 'A Star Is Born' is stamped with the words, 'Final Shooting Script,' then opened to reveal the following story: Esther Blodgett returns one winter evening to her home, an isolated farmhouse in North Dakota, after seeing a movie with her little brother Aleck, which starred her screen idol, Norman Maine.
