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So You Want to Be in Pictures1947

★6.611 minComedy

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

Director

Richard L. Bare

Writer

Richard L. Bare

Score

Stars

George O'Hanlon Art Gilmore Jack Carson

Cast21

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

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