Stuart Erwin
Merton Gill
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Make Me a Star: Directed by William Beaudine. With Joan Blondell, Stuart Erwin, Zasu Pitts, Ben Turpin. Merton Gill is longing to become a cowboy actor and leaves his hometown to try his luck in Hollywood, but there his acting ability is regarded as non-existent.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- William Beaudine
- 1932-07-01
Make Me a Star is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy film starring Stuart Erwin, Joan Blondell, and ZaSu Pitts. Directed by William Beaudine, the film is a remake of the 1924 silent film Merton of the Movies, based upon the 1922 novel of that name, and the 1923 play adapted from the novel by George S. Kaufman, and Marc Connelly.
- B.P. Schulberg(uncredited)
With its portrait of a movie hopeful who perseveres even when his prospects seem hopeless, Make Me a Star is a celebration of the lure of stardom. Erwin plays a small-town boy who, after taking a mail-order acting course, decides to go to Hollywood to become the next Tom Mix.
- William Beaudine
- Joan Blondell
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Besides Erwin and Blondell, Make Me A Star is best known for a whole flock of Paramount stars doing walk-ons as themselves in and around the studio and at the premiere of Erwin's movie. As I said, Erwin is almost Laurel like in his innocence and a sharp director decides to take advantage of that. Of course the gag is he doesn't tell Erwin.
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A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent. Cast. Joan Blondell. 'Flips' Montague. Stuart Erwin. Merton Gill. Zasu Pitts. Mrs. Scudder. Ben Turpin. Charles Sellon. Mr. Gashwiler. Florence Roberts. Mrs. Gashwiler. Helen Jerome Eddy.
Make Me a Star is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy film starring Stuart Erwin, Joan Blondell, and ZaSu Pitts. Directed by William Beaudine, the film is a remake of the 1924 silent film Merton of the Movies, based upon the 1922 novel of that name, and the 1923 play adapted from the novel by George S. Kaufman, and Marc Connelly.
