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 |
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| 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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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.
NO BONUS FEATURES