Star Dust (film)

Star Dust
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Walter Lang
Produced by	Kenneth Macgowan; Darryl F. Zanuck
Screenplay by	Helen Logan; Robert Ellis
Starring	Linda Darnell; John Payne; Roland Young; Charlotte Greenwood
Music by	David Buttolph
Cinematography	J. Peverell Marley
Edited by	Robert L. Simpson
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	April 6, 1940
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Star Dust is a 1940 comedy drama film directed by Walter Lang and starring Linda Darnell and John Payne.[1][2][3]

Plot

Amalgamated Pictures is seeking new stars for its motion pictures. Talent scout Thomas Brooke hits the road, looking for newcomers to bring back for screen tests, hopefully to impress the studio's boss, Dane Wharton.[4]

Brooke discovers a football player in Arizona who can sing, Bud Borden, and a talented Texas singer, Mary Andrews. On a visit to Arkansas, his presence is discovered by aspiring actress Carolyn Sayres, who schemes to get Brooke to take an interest in her. He does, at least until he finds out she's still a bit too young.

Everyone travels to Hollywood for screen tests and a visit to Grauman's Chinese Theater, where they get a kick out of the footprints of movie stars embedded in the cement. Brooke encounters the casting director's own new find, June Lawrence, a singer. He clashes with the studio, which offers a contract only to Mary and sends his other discoveries home.

Carolyn doesn't take no for an answer and comes back. Brooke now gets in her corner and schemes to insert footage from her screen test into a theater's newsreel. The next thing they all know, Carolyn is not only a star, Grauman's is inviting her to be immortalized in cement.

Cast

Linda Darnell as Carolyn Sayres
John Payne as Ambrose Fillmore/Bud Borden
Roland Young as Thomas Brooke
Charlotte Greenwood as Lola Langdon
William Gargan as Dane Wharton
Mary Beth Hughes as June Lawrence
Mary Healy as Mary Andrews
Donald Meek as Sam Wellman
Jessie Ralph as Aunt Martha Parker
Walter Kingsford as Napoleon in Screen Test
George Montgomery as Ronnie
Robert Lowery as Bellboy
Hal K. Dawson as Cargo
Jody Gilbert as Swedish Maid
Amanda Duff as Grauman's Chinese Usherette (uncredited)

References

"Star Dust (1940) - Walter Lang | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie". AllMovie. Retrieved 2017-08-12.
The 1931-1940: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films. University of California Press. 1993. p. 960. ISBN 978-0-520-07908-3. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
McCarty, Clifford (2000). Film Composers in America: A Filmography, 1911-1970. Oxford University Press. p. 504. ISBN 978-0-19-511473-7. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
"Star Dust". tcm.com. Retrieved 24 July 2020.

External links

Star Dust at IMDb

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[1] "Star Dust (1940) - Walter Lang | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie". AllMovie. Retrieved 2017-08-12.

[2] The 1931-1940: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films. University of California Press. 1993. p. 960. ISBN 978-0-520-07908-3. Retrieved 24 July 2020.

[3] McCarty, Clifford (2000). Film Composers in America: A Filmography, 1911-1970. Oxford University Press. p. 504. ISBN 978-0-19-511473-7. Retrieved 24 July 2020.

[4] "Star Dust". tcm.com. Retrieved 24 July 2020.