Make Me a Star (film)

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Make Me a Star
Make Me a Star (film).jpg
Directed byWilliam Beaudine
Screenplay bySam Mintz
Walter Deleon
Arthur Kober
Based onMerton of the Movies
1922 novel & play
by Harry Leon Wilson
George S. Kaufman (play)
Marc Connelly (play)
Moss Hart (play)
Produced byB.P. Schulberg(uncredited)
StarringJoan Blondell
Stuart Erwin
ZaSu Pitts
Ben Turpin
CinematographyAllen G. Siegler
Edited byEdward Dmytryk
LeRoy Stone
Music byJohn Leipold
Production
company
Paramount Pictures
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • July 1, 1932 (1932-07-01) (US)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Make Me a Star is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring Joan Blondell, Stuart Erwin and ZaSu Pitts. The film is a remake of the 1924 silent film Merton of the Movies,[1] based upon the 1922 novel of that name, and the 1923 play adapted from the novel by George S. Kaufman, and Marc Connelly. It was remade again in 1947.

Plot[]

A small-town delivery boy Merton Gill (Stuart Erwin) arrives in Hollywood, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and complete with a diploma from the National Correspondence Academy of Acting. Crashing the gates of Majestic Pictures Merton manages to fumble his one line bit in the latest Buck Benson (George Templeton) western and is fired on the spot.[2]

Cast[]

  • Joan Blondell as 'Flips' Montague
  • Stuart Erwin as Merton Gill
  • ZaSu Pitts as Mrs. Scudder
  • Ben Turpin as Ben
  • Charles Sellon as Mr. Gashwiler
  • Florence Roberts as Mrs. Gashwiler
  • Helen Jerome Eddy as Tessie Kearns
  • Arthur Hoyt as Hardy Powell
  • George Templeton as Buck Benson
  • Ruth Donnelly as The Countess
  • Sam Hardy as Jeff Baird
  • Oscar Apfel as Henshaw

Cameo appearances (as themselves)

  • Tallulah Bankhead
  • Clive Brook
  • Maurice Chevalier
  • Claudette Colbert
  • Gary Cooper
  • Phillips Holmes
  • Fredric March
  • Jack Oakie
  • Charles Ruggles
  • Sylvia Sidney

References[]

Notes

  1. ^ Marshall, p. 153
  2. ^ Make Me a Star: Details, allmovie.com; accessed September 23, 2015.

Bibliography

  • Marshall, Wendy L. (2005) William Beaudine: From Silents to Television. Scarecrow Press.

External links[]

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