Zeus

Let's Be Famous (1939)

• Director
  • Walter Forde
• Writers
  • Roger MacDougall(original screen play)
  • Allan MacKinnon(original screen play)
• Stars
  • Jimmy O'Dea
  • Betty Driver
  • Sonnie Hale

  An Irish fellow is determined to become a singing radio star. Unfortunately, fate seems to be determined to thwart him at every turn in this comedy. The trouble begins when he leaves his Irish village to go to a British radio station where he believes he is going to get his big chance to sing. Unfortunately, he soon discovers that he is to be a contestant in a spelling bee. This enrages him and he winds up throwing a major fit on the air. The resulting publicity lands him a talent agent who believes that the recent press will make the Irishman a singing star. It is not to be, and the agent loses his job. He and the Irishman end up drowning their sorrows, commandeering a sports broadcast where their drunken comments and shenanigans inspire the station to hire them as comedians.