Make Me a Star
1932 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Menton Gill is longing to become a cowboy actor and leaves his hometown to try his luck in Hollywood, but there his acting ability is regarded as non-existent. Actress Flips gives him a chance in a bit part, but he fails in that; however, the way he fails makes her think that he could be a good comedian. She persuades the studio to put him in a western parody, not telling him what they're really planing, because they know that he does not like comedies. Rather than ending tragic-comically, the movie becomes a brilliant coda to art and its servants, the artists, in this case the magniloquent Joan Blondell and Stuart Erwin.
Direction William Beaudine
Cast Joan Blondell · Stuart Erwin · ZaSu Pitts · Ben Turpin · Charles Sellon · Florence Roberts · Helen Jerome Eddy · Arthur Hoyt · George Templeton · Ruth Donnelly · Sam Hardy · Oscar Apfel · Tallulah Bankhead · Clive Brook · Claudette Colbert · Maurice Chevalier · Gary Cooper · Fredric March · Jack Oakie · Charles Ruggles · Sylvia Sidney
Soundtrack John Leipold
Screenplay Sam Mintz · Walter DeLeon · Arthur Kober · Harry Leon Wilson · George S. Kaufman · Marc Connelly
Cinematography Allen G. Siegler
Original title Make Me a Star
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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