6.6ReleasedComedy

So You Want to Be in Pictures

Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.

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Cast

  • George O'Hanlon
    George O'Hanlon
    Joe McDoakes / Self
  • Art Gilmore
    Art Gilmore
    Narrator (voice)
  • Jack Carson
    Jack Carson
    Man Giving Directions (uncredited)
  • George Chandler
    George Chandler
    Assistant Director Sammy (uncredited)
  • Clyde Cook
    Clyde Cook
    Actor in Army Scene (uncredited)
  • Franklyn Farnum
    Franklyn Farnum
    Man at Brown Derby with Sunglasses (uncredited)
  • Bess Flowers
    Bess Flowers
    Woman at Brown Derby with Sunglasses (uncredited)
  • Dick Gordon
    Man at Brown Derby with Sunglasses (uncredited)
  • Jane Harker
    Jane Harker
    Actress Playing Alice McDoakes (uncredited)
  • Robert Hutton
    Robert Hutton
    Self (uncredited)
  • Joan Leslie
    Joan Leslie
    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Fredric March
    Fredric March
    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Wayne Morris
    Wayne Morris
    Self (uncredited)
  • Jack Mower
    Jack Mower
    So You Want to Hold Your Wife Director (uncredited)
  • Janis Paige
    Janis Paige
    Self (uncredited)
  • Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan
    Self (uncredited)
  • Ralph Sanford
    Ralph Sanford
    Anthony Anguish (uncredited)
  • Alexis Smith
    Alexis Smith
    Self (uncredited)
  • Martha Vickers
    Martha Vickers
    Self (uncredited)
  • Leo White
    Leo White
    Waiter at Brown Derby (uncredited)
  • Jack Wise
    Autograph Seeker (uncredited)

Crew

  • Richard L. Bare
    Richard L. Bare
    Director
  • Richard L. Bare
    Richard L. Bare
    Screenplay
  • Gordon Hollingshead
    Producer
  • Wesley Anderson
    Director of Photography
  • Everett Dodd
    Editor
  • Roland E. Hill Sr.
    Art Direction
  • Everett Alton Brown
    Sound
  • William Lava
    William Lava
    Music

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