Tell It to a Star

• Director: Frank McDonald
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Musical
• Main Cast: Ruth Terry, Robert Livingston, Alan Mowbray, Franklin Pangborn, Isabel Randolph
• Release Year: 1945
• Country: US
• Run Time: 67 minutes

Plot

In this musical, a humble cigarette girl dreams of auditioning for the handsome bandleader at the nightclub. Her many attempts keep failing until her uncle appears. To help her, he impersonates a colonel and uses his "influence" to get her singing with the band. Eventually their ruse is revealed, but by then the bandleader has fallen in love with her. Songs include: "Tell It to a Star" (Shirley Botwin), "Love Me or Leave Me" (Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson), "You're So Good to Me" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne), "A Batucada Corazon" (Ary Barroso). ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Ruth Terry - Carol Lambert
• Robert Livingston - Gene Ritchie
• Alan Mowbray - Col. Ambrose Morgan
• Franklin Pangborn - Horace Lovelace
• Isabel Randolph - Mrs. Arnold Whitmore

Eddie Marr - Billy Sheehan; Adrian Booth - Mona St. Clair; Frank Orth - Augustus T. Goodman; Tom Dugan - Ed Smith; George Chandler - Al Marx; Mary McCarty - Miss Dobson; Aurora Miranda - Specialty; William B. Davidson - Brannigan

Credit

Aida Broadbent - Choreography, Frank McDonald - Director, Arthur Roberts - Editor, Lucius O. Croxton - Musical Direction/Supervision, Ernest W. Miller - Cinematographer, Walter H. Goetz - Producer, Howard Lydecker - Special Effects, John Krafft - Screen Story, John K. Butler - Screenwriter, Gerald Drayson Adams - Short Story Author