WAC Double Features: Make Me a Star/Merton of the Movies (MOD) "Docudrama"

WAC Double Features: Make Me a Star/Merton of the Movies (MOD) "Docudrama"Stars in their eyes laughter in the aisles! Two famed funnymen portray small town hick and Hollywood hopeful Merton Gill in the comedic tale that was first a novel, a beloved (and periodically reprised) stage hit and a silent film. Stuart Erwin adds a wistful note to Merton's Tinseltown dream in 1932's Make Me a Star. Red Skelton shows his gift for turning situations into extended gags in 1947's Merton of the Movies. Both films include star cameos:

and shares with absolutely everyone her absolutely Divine Madness

matches her cool elegance with Garfield's electric intensity in this highly regarded psychological thriller

and passion in the arms of the bewitching - and

initiate emergency evacuations of the surrounding area and call on bomb disposal expert Peter Lyncort to find the time fuse and disable it - a perilous task that will unexpectedly grow more dangerous

bent on universal domination and Lex Luthor team up to defeat him

Bob Goldthwait

The man-hating Venusian Queen (Laurie Mitchell) aims to destroy Earth once a Beta Disintegrator is operational

Harry Belafonte stars as Pennsylvania coal miner Ralph Burton

As the gang battles rival groups and intimidates the authorities

the investigation leads to Havana and the man running an alien smuggling ring known as Palinov (George Macready)

(the name is an homage to detective novelist Raymond Chandler)

Edward Dmytryk (Tender Comrade