I was in this movie

I was in this movie too. It was the part filmed at Arizona State University. I was 18 years old in the spring of 1976. We got tickets the night before to attend the concert (performers were Peter Frampton and Graham Central Station). The scenes with Barbra and Kris were also filmed between Peter Frampton and GCS performing. I remember where I was standing (right in the middle of the crowd on the football field) and I have a photo of myself and my twin sister with a bunch of strangers around us that look so 70's. Guys with long hair and beards and a girl wearing an Indian print blouse, etc. I remember that we were there from about 6 a.m. until about 6 p.m. and I got fried bigtime. I had fair skin and natural white blonde long hair and probably was too stupid at that time to wear sunscreen. It was fun but a long day. I am really excited because Barbra Streisand is finally coming to perform in Phoenix this November. I've been waiting to see her perform for 30 years. I always loved this movie, but then I'm a Barbra fan and I like almost everything she does.

Omg guys!! That is sooo cool! That must have been amazing! Thanks for sharing! What was Barbra like? I am a huge fan.

Lorelai:The government will close that day.Barbra Streisand will give her final concert... again.

I just received notice from Amazon that this movie is now available on DVD, so I thought I'd check out the message boards, and saw this thread. I was also a sophomore at Catalina h.s. in Tucson (I'm a native Tucsonan) when ASIB was being filmed there. I wasn't lucky enough to be an extra, but a good friend of mine who was into theater was hired as an extra. I remember like yesterday how excited he was when he told me "he got to help Miss Streisand down off the stage at TCC!" Regarding the other locations you mentioned, I want to point out a couple of things. You are correct about the Ramada Inn, I stayed there many times on trips to Phoenix while I was in college at the U of A. The nightclub where Barbra first performed with the Oreos is credited in the film as The Handlebar. I never figured out where it was in Phoenix (or possibly Tempe, near the ASU campus). The marriage scene, however, is not set at City Hall in Tucson. It is the Pima County Courthouse, commonly known around town as the "Old" Courthouse, since the Superior Courts Building was built in 1972. The Old Courthouse is probably one of Tucson's best-known landmarks; it was built in 1928 and designed by local architect Roy W. Place. Check out Pima County's website at www.co.pima.az.us; you'll see a photo of the distinctive dome right in the center of the banner of photos at the top of the page. The dome also figures prominently on almost every other page on the website.

Barbra's concert at the end of the film was shot in Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium, also on the ASU Campus. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and is reputed to be acoustically perfect. I've been to many concerts there, and it is definitely a top-notch venue.

One of the things I love so much about this movie is that it was filmed in Tucson and Phoenix and other parts of Arizona that I know very, very well. I know there is a lot of controversy over how good a film it is artistically, etc. etc., but every time I see it, it's like a walk down Memory Lane for me, as I'm sure it is for those of you who were fortunate enough to be in the movie...and I still LOVE the music!

Well, I wasn’t in the movie, but I was at the Los Angeles premiere party. Spider and I have been a couple for 38 years and we are musicians (Red Wedding, Smoke & Mirrors, Michael and Spider, www.michaelandspider.com). Back in 1976 (when I was 23 and Spider was 25), Spider was playing guitar on a Delaney Bramlett record, and Clydie King (one of the Oreos) was singing back-up on the same album. Clydie took a liking to Spider and told him she would be entertaining at the after-party for the “A Star Is Born” premiere in Westwood and she asked Spider if he would play guitar with her band. As it turns out, Delaney had offered Spider a chance to meet and jam with Ringo Starr (of The Beatles) that same evening, but Spider chose the Clydie gig instead, knowing what a huge fan I was of Barbra. I was not one of the performers and not on the invited guest list, but I entered the nightclub where the party was being held by pretending to be with Clydie’s band (carrying Spider’s guitar). The party was themed “A Spectacular Evening in White.” We spend the first part of the evening on the third floor of the club talking with both Clydie and Venetta Fields (the other Oreo) about their experiences working with Barbra in the film (they both couldn’t say enough wonderful things about her). Then Clydie and Spider and the band performed. Of course, the whole time was I looking around hoping to spot Barbra among all the guests, but there was no sign of her, and I was beginning to feel depressed that I wasn’t going to get to see my idol in person. After the performance, I overheard Clydie say that she was going up to the fourth floor to say hello to Barbra and we asked if we could join her and she invited us and others in the band to come along. I was so nervous! We took an elevator up to the top floor, and when the doors opened, it was like being in movie star heaven, all these famous people walking around and sitting at various tables in this large banquet room, everyone dressed in white. We passed through this room to a much smaller room at the back, a room guarded by security people. I was the last one to enter and one of the security men stopped me, but Clydie turned around just in time to see me being stopped and pulled me out of his clutches (although he did take away my small instamatic camera). At first I looked to the right of the room and there was Jon Peters and Kris Kristofferson sitting at a table having a discussion. Then I turned to the left, and there, surrounded by a small group of people was Barbra, all dressed in black. We walked right up to her and Barbra greeted Clydie with a hug and asked her if she was happy with the movie. Then Clydie introduced each of us one by one and Barbra greeted us warmly with a handshake. Then Barbra and Clydie chatted for a few minutes but I can’t tell you what was said. I was too busy just standing there (like a big star-struck geek) staring at Barbra, trying to drink in every moment of this once-in-a-lifetime experience I was having. Here in front of me was this woman I had idolized since I was ten years old (the woman who had recorded all those incredible albums, the concert and Broadway star, the woman who I had watched on the Ed Sullivan Show and in “Color Me Barbra,” the woman who had held hands with Judy Garland and sang “Happy Days Are Here Again”, the woman who had starred in “Funny Girl,” and “On A Clear Day” and “Up The Sandbox” and “The Way We Were”), and I had just been personally introduced to her and had shook her hand! I wanted to tell her how much she meant to me, how much I admired her work as a singer and an actress, how beautiful I thought she looked, but I was too nervous and afraid....and then the meeting was over....and it all seemed like a dream to me.
Today Spider and I live in Tucson, AZ (we’ve lived here for over a decade), and it was interesting for me to read these other posts about the filming of “A Star Is Born,” here in the old pueblo and up in Phoenix, so I thought I’d share my story.
Michael

Can i have your autograph, mcavendish?

I wasa at that first concert filming too!! They gave us boxed chicken lunches but I don't remember what they served the extras for dinner. I also remember the smoke effect they used.

If you were in this movie, as you claim, you would certainly know that the star's name is KRIS and not Chris.

You are a liar.

I was in the 1937 version. I played the guy who was jumping up and down on the roof, just before Cagney was sent to the chair.