Let's Be Famous

Let's Be Famous

Directed by	Walter Forde
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Written by	Roger MacDougall Allan MacKinnon
Starring	Jimmy O'Dea
Music by	Ernest Irving
Cinematography	Gordon Dines Ronald Neame
Edited by	Ray Pitt
Production company	Associated Talking Pictures
Distributed by	Associated British
Release dates	March 1939
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Let's Be Famous is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jimmy O'Dea, Betty Driver and Sonnie Hale. It was made by Ealing Studios, with shooting beginning in November 1938.^[1] The film's art direction was by the Austrian Oscar Werndorff, in his final production.

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
Garry Marsh as BBC Official
Alf Goddard as Battling Bulger
Henry Hallett as Grenville
Hay Plumb as Announcer
Lena Brown as Polly Pinbright
Raymond Huntley as Singer in trio

References

↑ Wood p.98

Bibliography

Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
Perry, George. Forever Ealing. Pavilion Books, 1994.
Sutton, David R. A Chorus of Raspberries: British Film Comedy 1929-1939. University of Exeter Press, 2000.
Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

Let's Be Famous at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Walter Forde

What Next? (1928)
The Silent House (1929)
Wait and See (1929)
Would You Believe It! (1929)
You'd Be Surprised! (1930)
Red Pearls (1930)
The Last Hour (1930)
Lord Richard in the Pantry (1930)
Bed and Breakfast (1930)
Third Time Lucky (1931)
The Ringer (1931)
The Ghost Train (1931)
Splinters in the Navy (1931)
Condemned to Death (1932)
Lord Babs (1932)
Jack's the Boy (1932)
Rome Express (1932)
Orders Is Orders (1934)
Chu Chin Chow (1934)
Jack Ahoy (1934)
Bulldog Jack (1935)
Brown on Resolution (1935)
King of the Damned (1935)
Land Without Music (1936)
Kicking the Moon Around (1938)
The Gaunt Stranger (1938)
Let's Be Famous (1939)
The Four Just Men (1939)
Cheer Boys Cheer (1939)
Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939)
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940)
Saloon Bar (1940)
Sailors Three (1940)
Gasbags (1941)
The Ghost Train (1941)
Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It (1941)
Atlantic Ferry (1941)
Flying Fortress (1942)
The Peterville Diamond (1943)
It's That Man Again (1943)
Time Flies (1944)
One Exciting Night (1944)
Master of Bankdam (1947)
Cardboard Cavalier (1949)

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