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1 July 1932 (USA) moreTagline:
Thousands Dream of it! Pray for it! Pay for it! But few ever achieve it!Plot:
Menton Gill is longing to become a cowboy actor and leaves his hometown to try his luck in Hollywood... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Hollywood dreams can come true... sort of. more (8 total)Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Joan Blondell | ... | 'Flips' Montague |
| Stuart Erwin | ... | Merton Gill, aka 'Whoop' Ryder |
| Zasu Pitts | ... | Mrs. Scudder (as ZaSu Pitts) |
| Ben Turpin | ... | Ben the Crosseyed Man |
| Charles Sellon | ... | Mr. Gashwiler |
| Florence Roberts | ... | Mrs. Gashwiler |
| Helen Jerome Eddy | ... | Tessie Kearns |
| Arthur Hoyt | ... | Hardy Powell |
| George Templeton | ... | Buck Benson (as Dink Templeton) |
| Ruth Donnelly | ... | The Countess |
| Sam Hardy | ... | Jeff Baird |
| Oscar Apfel | ... | Director Henshaw |
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Here I am, in 2007, and I'm a huge Joan Blondell fan. Yes, Zasu Pitts appears in MAKE ME A STAR – daffy and confounding – but only for a bit. I think it's Joanie's movie.
Stuart Erwin stars as Merton Gill, a.k.a. 'Whoop' Ryder, a kid from a small town who wants to make it in Hollywood as a serious actor in Westerns. He gives it a huge effort, but he's dismissed as the rube he actually is. Flips Montague (Joan) is sympathetic. She gets him a job, with a Mack Sennett-like director whose big star is that "cross-eyed man" Stuart dislikes so much. Merton thinks he's acting in a serious film, but it is edited and spliced, his voice changed to make him sound effeminate, and turned into a farce.
Merton proposes to Joan before the film's big opening, but she feels guilty and fakes sickness. He goes to the opening by himself and is humiliated.
I won't give away the ending, and the film is resolved by the closing scene, but it's nice to imagine his future if he takes the course which involves the girl.
This is a fun film.