  
1940
Twentieth Century-Fox
Produced by Kenneth MacGowan
Directed by Walter Lang
Written by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan
Photographed by Peverell Marley
Music by David Buttolph
85 minutes
Starring Linda Darnell, John Payne, Roland Young, Charlotte Greenwood, William Gargan, Mary Beth Hughes, Donald Meek, Jessie Ralph
Improbable yarn about a beautiful young girl (Linda Darnell) who goes to Hollywood to become a movie star. John Payne is another hopeful, with whom she falls in love, and Mary Beth Hughes the selfish starlet who attempts to sabotage Linda's career by burying her screen test. Roland Young is most enjoyable as a kindly talent scout. Joan appears as one of a number of college kids, on her musical way with singing quaterback Payne to a college football game. If I had a better print I might be able to tell which one. It wasn't a very big part for Miss Brodel.
Hokey but diverting picture that never asks us to take it too seriously. Recommended.
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