It's Tough to Be Famous (Warner Archive)

It's Tough to Be Famous (Warner Archive)

(1932)

actors: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mary Brian, Harold Minjir, Emma Dunn, Walter Catlett, David Landau, Terrance Ray, Oscar Apfel, Louise Beavers, J. Carrol Naish
director: Alfred E. Green
genre: Comedy, Drama
line: Warner Home Video
year: 1932
length: 79 minutes
released: January 08, 2013
format: DVD
misc: NTSC, Full Screen, Black & White
language: English (Original Language)

Synopsis

Out of the deep blue sea...into the turbulent fishbowl of fame.

After heroically saving his crew from disaster aboard a navy submarine, Scotty McClenahan becomes an overnight celebrity. Lucrative job offers roll in. Banquets, newspapers and ticker-tape parades hail him. Advertisers want his endorsements. Passersby want his handshake. Meanwhile, a buzzsaw of a press agent keeps events snapping and spiraling. And Scotty, too private a man to enjoy the adoring glare of the public eye, feels he is "walking a tightrope on roller skates."

The pell-mell pace and privacy intrusions are undermining the one thing he values most: his marriage. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (Gunga Din) portrays Scotty, Mary Brian (1931's The Front Page) is his wife, and Walter Catlett is a scheming PR man in this satiric comedy-drama whose story was likely inspired by the acclaim that greeted aviator Charles Lindbergh.

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