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.
Richard L. Bare
Casts & Crew
George O'Hanlon
Art Gilmore
Jack Carson
George Chandler
Clyde Cook
Franklyn Farnum
Bess Flowers
Dick Gordon
Jane Harker
Robert Hutton
Joan Leslie
Fredric March
Wayne Morris
Jack Mower
Janis Paige
Ronald Reagan
Ralph Sanford
Alexis Smith
Martha Vickers
Leo White
Jack Wise
Also Directed by Richard L. Bare
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