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How to Be Very, Very Popular

Year:

1956

Duration:

89 min

Genres:

Comedy

IMDB rate:

5.1

Director:

Nunnally Johnson

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1956-01-06

Filming Locations: Stage 4, 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Gertrude Astor

Betty Grable

Stormy Tornado

Sheree North

Curly Flagg

Robert Cummings

Fillmore 'Wedge' Wedgewood

Charles Coburn

Dr. Tweed

Tommy Noonan

Eddie Jones

Orson Bean

Toby Marshall

Fred Clark

B.J. Marshall

Charlotte Austin

Midge

Alice Pearce

Miss 'Syl' Sylvester

Rhys Williams

Cedric Flagg

Andrew Tombes

Police Sgt. Moon

Noel Toy

Cherry Blossom Wang

Emory Parnell

Chief of Police

Harry Carter

Bus Driver

Jesslyn Fax

Music Teacher

Jack Mather

1st Police Detective

Mike Lally

2nd Police Detective (as Michael Lally)

Milton Parsons

Mr. X - Bald Barber

Janice Carroll

Burlesque Dancer

Joan Holcombe

Burlesque Dancer

Iona McKenzie

Burlesque Dancer

Howard Petrie

Desk Sergeant

Harry Seymour

Teacher

Jean Walters

Telephone Operator

Stanley Farrar

Professor

Willard Waterman

Speaker

Anthony Redondo

Airport Attendant

Jean Acker

(uncredited)

Leah Baird

(uncredited)

Gertrude Carr

(uncredited)

Edmund Cobb

Cop (uncredited)

Barry Coe

Student (uncredited)

Richard Collier

Man in Bar (uncredited)

Heinie Conklin

Yawning Man at Strip Bar (uncredited)

Irene Crosby

Performer (uncredited)

Mina Cunard

(uncredited)

Harry Denny

(uncredited)

Dan Dowling

(uncredited)

Minta Durfee

Older Woman (uncredited)

Conrad Feia

Student (uncredited)

Norman Field

Waiter Fleeting Strip Bar (uncredited)

Paul Glass

Student (uncredited)

Kit Guard

Man in Strip Bar (uncredited)

Harlan Hoagland

(uncredited)

Colin Kenny

Strip Bar Bartender (uncredited)

Gertrude Mack

(uncredited)

Wilbur Mack

(uncredited)

Hank Mann

News Vendor (uncredited)

Ralph Moratz

Graduating student (uncredited)

Eva Novak

(uncredited)

Leslie Parrish

Girl on Bus (uncredited)

Dorothy Phillips

(uncredited)

Paul Power

(uncredited)

Arline Pretty

(uncredited)

Jack Raine

Speaker (uncredited)

Bill Raisch

(uncredited)

Buck Russell

(uncredited)

Scott Seaton

(uncredited)

Bernard Sell

(uncredited)

Reginald Simpson

(uncredited)

Garry Thorne

Student (uncredited)

Colin Ward

(uncredited)

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Trivia

A December 1954 item in Hollywood Reporter's "Rambling Reporter" column indicated that the studio wanted Marilyn Monroe to appear in the film with Jane Russell, her co-star in the studio's highly successful 1953 production _Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953_).

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This was the final feature of Betty Grable's 25-year film career. Her first screen appearance in Let's Go Places (1930) had been released less than a month after Betty had turned 13 years old.

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The part of Curly was adapted by Nunnally Johnson for Marilyn Monroe, who was placed on suspension by Twentieth Century-Fox for refusing the assignment. During the next year, Miss Monroe would live in Manhattan, studying with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio. When Marilyn and Fox came to terms, she returned to Hollywood to star as fame-obsessed Cherie in Bus Stop (1956).

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Quotes

Stormy: Hey Curly!

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Wedgewood: And, er, Mrs. Marshall, sir?

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Eddie Jones: Do you know what Salome does?

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