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Title: Brenda Starr (1989)
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Brooke Shields | ... | Brenda Starr | |
| Timothy Dalton | ... | Basil St. John | |
| Tony Peck | ... | Mike Randall | |
| Diana Scarwid | ... | Libby 'Lips' Lipscomb | |
| Nestor Serrano | ... | Jose | |
| Jeffrey Tambor | ... | Vladimir | |
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June Gable | ... | Luba |
| Charles Durning | ... | Editor Francis I. Livright | |
| Kathleen Wilhoite | ... | Reporter Hank O'Hare | |
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John Short | ... | Cub Reporter Pesky Miller |
| Eddie Albert | ... | Police Chief Maloney | |
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Mark von Holstein | ... | Donovan O'Shea, Public Enemy #3 |
| Henry Gibson | ... | Professor Gerhardt Von Kreutzer | |
| Ed Nelson | ... | President Harry S. Truman | |
| Tom Aldredge | ... | The Fake Capt. Borg | |
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Mike is a struggling artist who draws the "Brenda Starr" strip for the papers. When Brenda comes to life in the strip and sees how unappreciated she is by Mike, she leaves the strip. To get her back, and keep his job, Mike draws himself into the strip. In her world, Brenda Starr is the Ace Reporter for the New York Flash. She is talented, fearless, smart, and a very snappy dresser. The only competition she has is from the rival paper's top reporter Libby Lipscomb. Brenda heads to the Amazon jungle to find a scientist with a secret formula which will create cheap and powerful gas from ordinary water. Written by Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
15 April 1992 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Brenda Starr - Stjärnreportern See more »Edit
Box Office
Budget:
$16,000,000 (estimated)Gross USA:
$67,878Company Credits
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Libby 'Lips' Lipscomb: Haha! Little man, I don't care about the O'Shea story. "Small potatoes." I'm working on something so big it'll really clean your clock, Starr! Put you right out of the newspaper game! All you poor saps. So, tata!
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Written by Frederick Logan & James Shannon
Published by Forster Music Publishing Company (ASCAP)
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Cub Reporter Pesky Miller: You're just sore because Brenda got the O'Shea story while you were sitting on your claws!Libby 'Lips' Lipscomb: Haha! Little man, I don't care about the O'Shea story. "Small potatoes." I'm working on something so big it'll really clean your clock, Starr! Put you right out of the newspaper game! All you poor saps. So, tata!
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Soundtracks
The Missouri WaltzWritten by Frederick Logan & James Shannon
Published by Forster Music Publishing Company (ASCAP)
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I am one of perhaps a couple thousand people to actually view this film in a theater and not on video-tape. I attended the premiere in the Florida Theater in Jacksonville, Florida. From the cast and crew, only the director, Robert Ellis Miller, managed to attend, introducing his film that was made in the Jacksonville area a few years before.
Overall, it's a fairly good film. The tongue-in-cheek acting is right on, with Brooke Shields and a pre-007 Timothy Dalton having a lot of fun with the material. Unfortunately, a couple of scenes were really hard to believe... especially when our heroine Brenda Starr waterskis on the backs of a pair of alligators!!!
The other effects in the film were nicely handled, including the animation and the scene showing an older New York City behind the historic Ritz Theater which played host to a scene early in the picture.
It's not a great film, but deserving of a viewing if you'd like an adventure flick without much seriousness. 7 out of 10 stars.