Let's Be Famous
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| Let's Be Famous | |
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| Directed by | Walter Forde |
| Written by | |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon |
| Starring | Jimmy O'Dea |
| Cinematography | |
| Edited by | Ray Pitt |
| Music by | |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Associated British |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £21,393[1] |
Let's Be Famous is a 1939 British musical comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jimmy O'Dea, Betty Driver and Sonnie Hale.[2] It was written by Roger MacDougall and Allan MacKinnon.
Amateur singer and stage-struck shopkeeper Jimmy Houlihan travels to London to enter a BBC radio singing competition. It turns out, however, that he has been entered in a spelling bee.
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
- Lena Brown as Polly Pinbright
- Henry Hallett as Grenville
- Garry Marsh as BBC official
- Franklyn Bellamy as Ali Benali (as Franklin Bellamy)
- Hay Plumb as announcer
- Alf Goddard as Battling Bulger
- Raymond Huntley as singer in trio (uncredited)
- Jack Vyvyan as Alfie
Production
The film was made by Associated Talking Pictures, with shooting beginning in November 1938.[3] The film's art direction was by the Austrian Oscar Werndorff, in his final production.