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Films
Bakshy, Alexander | July 20, 1932 issue

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The article focuses on the motion picture "Make Me a Star." The public, however, unquestionably regarded the play as a skit on the movies and on the absurd way in which ignorant and talentless nobodies rise to the dizzy heights of stardom. It cannot be denied that an implication to this effect, whether intentional or not, is present in the story. Not without its own unconscious humor is the tact that "Make Me a Star," which makes fun of unconscious humor in screen acting, belies its moral by demonstrating the superiority of natural character acting over the more dextrous "impersonation" of a character. The movie casts Stuart Erwin, Joan Blondell.

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MOTION pictures; MAKE Me a Star (Film); COMEDY; MOTION picture industry; WIT & humor; CULTURAL industries
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