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Merton of the Movies
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A small-town clerk dreams of becoming a serious, dramatic film actor. He travels to Hollywood, where his exaggerated, old-fashioned acting style is laughably bad. Through a misunderstanding, he is hired not for a drama, but for a comedy, and his painfully sincere performance becomes a huge hit, making him a star without him ever realizing he is the joke.
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- Director
- Robert Alton
- Writers
- George Wells, Lou Breslow
- Based on
- a work by George S. Kaufman, Harry Leon Wilson, Marc Connelly
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Released
- 11 October 1947
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Rated
- NR
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