Stand-In (1937)
Release Date: Oct 29, 1937 Wide
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Bookish bank employee Atterbury Dodd (Leslie Howard) is ordered to investigate the near-bankrupt Colossal Studios in Hollywood, to see if the firm is any sort of good risk. Dodd's first brush with Tinseltown's cuckoo atmosphere occurs when he takes a room in a boarding house for extras, where all manner of eccentrics wander about as they wait for the phone to ring (Charles Middleton comports himself in an Abe Lincoln costume, on the off-chance that Hollywood will go back to making Civil War
Oct 29, 1937 Wide
Jan 28, 2003
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Leslie Howard
Atterbury Dodd -
Joan Blondell
Lester Plum -
Humphrey Bogart
Douglas Quintain -
Alan Mowbray
Koslofski -
Marla Shelton
Thelma Cheri -
Jack Carson
Potts -
C. Henry Gordon
Ivor Nassau -
J.C. Nugent
Pennypacker Jr. -
Tully Marshall
Pennypacker Sr. -
William V. Mong
Pennypacker
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Inane spoof on Hollywood, deteriorates in the second half to drivel.
Clever, overlooked Hollywood satire from the quirky Tay Garnett.
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Movie: ID: 21000 Title: Stand-In Release Date: 1937-10-29 00:00:00.0 MPAA: 6 Status: 1
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