Let's Be Famous Explained

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. ‘The highest salary ever paid to a human being’: Creating a Database of Film Costs from the Bank of England . Chapman. Llewella. Edinburgh University Press. Journal of British cinema and television, 2022-10. 19. 4. 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.