So You Want to Be in Pictures
Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.
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Top Cast

George O'Hanlon
Joe McDoakes / Self

Art Gilmore
Narrator (voice)

Jack Carson
Man Giving Directions (uncredited)

George Chandler
Assistant Director Sammy (uncredited)

Clyde Cook
Actor in Army Scene (uncredited)

Franklyn Farnum
Man at Brown Derby with Sunglasses (uncredited)

Bess Flowers
Woman at Brown Derby with Sunglasses (uncredited)
Dick Gordon
Man at Brown Derby with Sunglasses (uncredited)

Jane Harker
Actress Playing Alice McDoakes (uncredited)

Robert Hutton
Self (uncredited)

Joan Leslie
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Fredric March
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Wayne Morris
Self (uncredited)

Jack Mower
So You Want to Hold Your Wife Director (uncredited)

Janis Paige
Self (uncredited)

Ronald Reagan
Self (uncredited)

Ralph Sanford
Anthony Anguish (uncredited)

Alexis Smith
Self (uncredited)

Martha Vickers
Self (uncredited)

Leo White
Waiter at Brown Derby (uncredited)
Crew
Directors
Producers
Cinematographers
Editors
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1942

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1942
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1945
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1946
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1946

So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck
1946

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1947
So You Want to Be in Pictures
1947
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1947
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1947
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1948

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1948
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1948

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1948

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So You Want to Throw a Party
1950

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1950
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1950
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1950
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1950
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1951
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1951
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1951
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1951
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1951
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1952
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1952
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1952

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1952
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1952
So You Want to Wear the Pants
1952
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1953
So You Want a Television Set
1953
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1953
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1953
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1953
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1954
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1954
So You Want to Go to a Nightclub
1954
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1954
So You Want to Know Your Relatives
1954
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1955

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1955
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1955
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1955
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1955
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1955
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1956

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1956
So You Want to Play the Piano
1956
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1956
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