Let's Be Famous

Let's Be Famous
Directed by	Walter Forde
Written by	Roger MacDougall Allan MacKinnon
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Starring	Jimmy O'Dea
Cinematography	Gordon Dines Ronald Neame
Edited by	Ray Pitt
Music by	Ernest Irving Jack Beaver
Production company	Associated Talking Pictures
Distributed by	Associated British
Release date	March 1939 (1939-03)
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£21,393 [1]

Let's Be Famous is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jimmy O'Dea, Betty Driver and Sonnie Hale. It was made by Associated Talking Pictures, with shooting beginning in November 1938. ^[2] The film's art direction was by the Austrian Oscar Werndorff, in his final production.

Cast

• Jimmy O'Dea as Jimmy Houlihan
• Betty Driver as Betty Pinbright
• Sonnie Hale as Finch
• Patrick Barr as Johnny Blake
• Basil Radford as Watson
• Milton Rosmer as Albert Pinbright
• Lena Brown as Polly Pinbright
• Henry Hallett as Grenville
• Garry Marsh as BBC Official
• Franklyn Bellamy as Ali Benali (as Franklin Bellamy)
• Hay Plumb as Announcer
• Alf Goddard as Battling Bulger
• Raymond Huntley as Singer in trio (uncredited)

References

1. Chapman, Llewella. "'The highest salary ever paid to a human being': Creating a Database of Film Costs from the Bank of England". Journal of British cinema and television, 2022-10. Vol. 19, no. 4. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 470–494 at 480.
2. Wood p. 98

Bibliography

• Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
• Perry, George. Forever Ealing. Pavilion Books, 1994.
• Sutton, David R. A Chorus of Raspberries: British Film Comedy 1929-1939. University of Exeter Press, 2000.
• Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

• Let's Be Famous at IMDb