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So You Want to Be in Pictures(1947)

NRJune 7, 194711m

66%User score 66 percent

User Score

7 votes

Overview

Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.

Director: Richard L. Bare
Writers: Richard L. Bare

Top Billed Cast

George O'Hanlon
Joe McDoakes / Self
Art Gilmore
Narrator (voice)
Jack Carson
Man Giving Directions (uncredited)
George Chandler
Assistant Director Sammy (uncredited)

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Clyde Cook

Actor in Army Scene (uncredited)

Franklyn Farnum

Man at Brown Derby with Sunglasses (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

Woman at Brown Derby with Sunglasses (uncredited)

Jane Harker

Actress Playing Alice McDoakes (uncredited)

Robert Hutton

Self (uncredited)

Joan Leslie

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Fredric March

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Wayne Morris

Self (uncredited)

Jack Mower

So You Want to Hold Your Wife Director (uncredited)

Janis Paige

Self (uncredited)

Ronald Reagan

Self (uncredited)

Ralph Sanford

Anthony Anguish (uncredited)

Alexis Smith

Self (uncredited)

Martha Vickers

Self (uncredited)

Leo White

Waiter at Brown Derby (uncredited)

Dick Gordon

Man at Brown Derby with Sunglasses (uncredited)

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Facts

Status: Released
Original title: So You Want to Be in Pictures
Original language: English
Production: Richard L. Bare Productions, The Vitaphone Corporation, Warner Bros. Pictures

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