Let's Be Famous (1939)
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Directors
Walter Forde
Cast
Jimmy O'Dea
The story
Amateur singer and stage-struck shopkeeper Jimmy Houlihan travels to London to enter a BBC radio singing competition. It turns out, however, that he has been entered in a spelling bee.
Genres
musical comedy
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