Variety Girl (1947)
PARAMOUNT'S MAMMOTH MUSICAL ROMANCE ...
Genre : Music, Comedy
Runtime : 1H 33M
Director : George Marshall
Writer : Monte Brice, Edmund L. Hartmann, Frank Tashlin, Robert L. Welch
Synopsis
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
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