Let's Be Famous
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Let's Be Famous | |
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Directed by | Walter Forde |
Produced by | Michael Balcon |
Written by | Roger MacDougall Allan MacKinnon |
Starring | Jimmy O'Dea |
Music by | Ernest Irving |
Cinematography | Gordon Dines Ronald Neame |
Edited by | Ray Pitt |
Production
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Distributed by | Associated British |
Release dates
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March 1939 |
Running time
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83 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Let's Be Famous is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jimmy O'Dea, Betty Driver and Sonnie Hale. It was made by Ealing Studios, with shooting beginning in November 1938.[1] The film's art direction was by the Austrian Oscar Werndorff, in his final production.
Contents
Cast
- Jimmy O'Dea as Jimmy Houlihan
- Betty Driver as Betty Pinbright
- Sonnie Hale as Finch
- Patrick Barr as Johnny Blake
- Basil Radford as Watson
- Milton Rosmer as Albert Pinbright
- Garry Marsh as BBC Official
- Alf Goddard as Battling Bulger
- Henry Hallett as Grenville
- Hay Plumb as Announcer
- Lena Brown as Polly Pinbright
- Raymond Huntley as Singer in trio
References
- ↑ Wood p.98
Bibliography
- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Perry, George. Forever Ealing. Pavilion Books, 1994.
- Sutton, David R. A Chorus of Raspberries: British Film Comedy 1929-1939. University of Exeter Press, 2000.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Let's Be Famous at IMDb
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- English-language films
- 1939 films
- British films
- British musical comedy films
- British black-and-white films
- 1930s musical comedy films
- Films directed by Walter Forde
- Ealing Studios films
- Films set in London
- 1930s British film stubs
- Musical comedy film stubs