A Kansas bumpkin goes to Hollywood to become a movie star and gets a job burlesquing his favorite actor - only he thinks the role is serious.A Kansas bumpkin goes to Hollywood to become a movie star and gets a job burlesquing his favorite actor - only he thinks the role is serious.A Kansas bumpkin goes to Hollywood to become a movie star and gets a job burlesquing his favorite actor - only he thinks the role is serious.
Tom Dugan
- Sam Montague
- (scenes deleted)
Morris Ankrum
- Goodfellow's Club Manager
- (uncredited)
Phil Arnold
- Shorty
- (uncredited)
King Baggot
- Man in Audience
- (uncredited)
Polly Bailey
- Mother in Theatre
- (uncredited)
Charles Bates
- Boy in Theatre
- (uncredited)
Brandon Beach
- Club Member
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaThis was Virginia O'Brien's final starring role and the last film she made for MGM. After this she had small roles in two later films but otherwise retired from the screen.
- Quotes
Beulah Baxter: [Introducing Merton to champagne] It's made of grapes... like fruit juice. The Frenchman that sold it to me explained the whole thing one night. We... well, ordered a boat load.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
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30 ways of kissing...Skelton-style
Kansas theater usher (and dramatic acting school graduate!) thwarts a robbery and is brought out to Hollywood by train in the Silent Era strictly for quick publicity; he winds up living on a park bench waiting for an acting job, and finally gets one filling in for his idol, an irresponsible star who's been hitting the bottle. Third film-version of a play by Marc Connelly and George S. Kaufman, based on Harry Leon Wilson's book, now revamped as a comedic vehicle for Red Skelton. Earliest scenes are best, with our dimply, aw-shucks hero politely scheming his way onto movie sets, with amusing results. Slapstick sequence at a high-toned Men's Club seems to belong to a different picture, although the pay-off there is also funny. Runs out of steam towards the end, however Skelton and Virginia O'Brien are a good match. Direction by former-choreographer Robert Alton is quick on its feet, and there are some big laughs in the first hour. **1/2 from ****
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- moonspinner55
- Apr 7, 2011
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- Hoppla, hier kommt Merton!
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- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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