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Tell It to a Star

10.019451h 7mMovieMusicComedy

Carol (Ruth Terry), the cigarette girl at a swank Palm Springs hotel, dreams of singing in the establishment's nightclub. She gets a chance when her well-to-do uncle, "Colonel" Morgan (Alan Mowbray), and a pal blow into town ... until…

DirectorFrank McDonald
WriterJohn K. Butler

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Cast · Directed by Frank McDonald

RTRuth Terry
Ruth Terry
Carol Lambert
AMAlan Mowbray
Alan Mowbray
Col. Ambrose Morgan
FPFranklin Pangborn
Franklin Pangborn
Horace Lovelace
RLRobert Livingston
Robert Livingston
Gene Ritchie
IRIsabel Randolph
Isabel Randolph
Mrs. Whitmore
FOFrank Orth
Frank Orth
Augustus T. Goodman
LGLorna Gray
Lorna Gray
Mona St. Clair
GCGeorge Chandler
George Chandler
Al Marx
TDTom Dugan
Tom Dugan
Ed Smith
MMMary McCarty
Mary McCarty
Miss Dobson
WDWilliam B. Davidson
William B. Davidson
Brannigan
EMEddie Marr
Eddie Marr
Billy Sheehan

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