Variety Girl
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
George Marshall
Casts & Crew
Mary Hatcher
Olga San Juan
DeForest Kelley
Frank Ferguson
Glenn Tryon
Nella Walker
Torben Meyer
Jack Norton
Elaine Riley
Charles Victor
Gus Taute
Harry Hayden
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
Gary Cooper
Alan Ladd
Barbara Stanwyck
Paulette Goddard
Dorothy Lamour
Sonny Tufts
Joan Caulfield
William Holden
Lizabeth Scott
Burt Lancaster
Gail Russell
Diana Lynn
Sterling Hayden
Robert Preston
Veronica Lake
John Lund
William Bendix
Barry Fitzgerald
Howard Da Silva
Macdonald Carey
Cass Daley
Patric Knowles
Mona Freeman
Billy De Wolfe
William Demarest
Cecil Kellaway
Virginia Field
Richard Webb
Frank Faylen
Cecil B. DeMille
Mitchell Leisen
Frank Butler
George Marshall
Pearl Bailey
Jimmy Mulcay
Mildred Mulcay
Spike Jones
Walter Abel
Eric Alden
Bob Alden
Lucille Barkley
Patricia Barry
Stanley Clements
Charles Coleman
George Reeves
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