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Star Dust (film)

{{short description|1940 film by Walter Lang}}

{{Other uses|Stardust (disambiguation){{!}}Stardust}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Star Dust

| image = Star Dust poster.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = Walter Lang

| producer = Kenneth Macgowan
Darryl F. Zanuck

| screenplay = Helen Logan
Robert Ellis

| based_on = Jesse Malo
Kenneth Earl
Ivan Kahn
(based on a story by)

| starring = Linda Darnell
John Payne
Roland Young
Charlotte Greenwood

| music = David Buttolph

| cinematography = J. Peverell Marley

| editing = Robert L. Simpson

| color_process = Black and white

| studio = 20th Century Fox

| distributor = 20th Century Fox

| released = {{film date|1940|4|6}}

| runtime = 86 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Star Dust is a 1940 American comedy drama film directed by Walter Lang and starring Linda Darnell and John Payne, Roland Young and Charlotte Greenwood.{{Cite web|url=http://allmovie.com/work/stardust-111608|title=Star Dust (1940) - Walter Lang {{!}} Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related {{!}} AllMovie|website=AllMovie|access-date=2017-08-12}}{{cite book |title=The 1931-1940: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films |date=1993 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-07908-3 |page=960 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e024jm9X7gQC&q=star+dust+1940+film&pg=PA960 |accessdate=24 July 2020 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=McCarty |first1=Clifford |title=Film Composers in America: A Filmography, 1911-1970 |date=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-511473-7 |page=504 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IK7tuydSUpQC&q=star+dust+1940+film&pg=PA504 |accessdate=24 July 2020 |language=en}}

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.{{cite web |title=Star Dust |url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/410223 |publisher=tcm.com |access-date=24 July 2020}}

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, not only is Carolyn a star, Grauman's is inviting her to be immortalized in cement.

Cast

References

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External links

  • {{IMDb title|id=0033100|title=Star Dust}}
  • {{AFI film|6123|title=Star Dust}}
  • {{TCMDb title|91274|title=Star Dust}}

{{Walter Lang}}

Category:1940 films

Category:1940 comedy-drama films

Category:20th Century Fox films

Category:American black-and-white films

Category:American comedy-drama films

Category:Films about Hollywood, Los Angeles

Category:Films directed by Walter Lang

Category:Films produced by Darryl F. Zanuck

Category:Films scored by David Buttolph

Category:1940s English-language films

Category:1940s American films

Category:English-language comedy-drama films

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