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  1. 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
  2. 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.

  3. 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
  4. Oct 22, 2020 · I have been watching a few interesting films this past week or so, starting with the 1932 film Make Me a Star . Someone I know had posted a write up on the film HEARTS OF THE WEST (1975) and in part compares its theme to the 1932 film.

  5. Timid small town grocery clerk Merton Gill (Stuart Erwin) has one dream. He wants to be a cowboy movie star and heads out to Hollywood. Actress 'Flips' Montague (Joan Blondell) gives him a chance, but he's bad. They decide to make a western parody movie without telling him that it's a parody. He thinks that it's a serious western.

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  8. An extraordinarily sweet-natured film in the popular '30s vein, serving as both a hymn to and a satire on the movie industry, as an earnest hayseed (Stuart Erwin) turns up in Hollywood with stars in his eyes, has the stuffing knocked out of him, then makes good - but perhaps not in the way he expected.

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