Pick a Star (1937)
2/10
Two Tickets to Hollywood
10 May 2020
A quiz question rather than a film. Notable solely for James Finlayson (minus his false moustache) as a director filming a sexily-attired chorus line and then a barroom fight with bottles between Walter Long and Laurel & Hardy (with Charlie Hall as Finlayson's assistant) and for featuring two Tin Men (Hardy, who played him in 1925, and Jack Haley, soon to take on the role in MGM's 1939 classic).

As usual it perpetuates the old myth that all scenes in movies are shot in long shot with the director throughout never getting out of his chair. Apart from the boys, the funniest people in it are predictably Patsy Kelly and Mischa Auer (the latter playing a Latin lover named Rinaldo Lopez).
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