10 Aug 1950
Sunset Boulevard
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
I Ought to Be in Pictures
Libby Tucker hitchhiked from Brooklyn to take Hollywood by storm. And her father by surprise.
Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby arrives in LA on a Tuesday and phones Dad the one night that Stephanie, who does Jane Fonda's hair, stays over. Stephanie is there the next morning when Libby decides she needs to tell her story face-to-face.
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Walter Matthau Herbert Tucker
Ann-Margret Steffy Blondell
Dinah Manoff Libby Tucker
Lance Guest Gordon
Michael Dudikoff Boy on bus
Calvin Ander Rabbi
Shelby Balik Shelley
Larry Barton Harry
Eugene Butler Marty
Bill Cross Truck Driver
Gillian Farrell Waitress
David Faustino Martin
Martin Ferrero Monte Del Rey
Allan Graf Baseball Fan
Samantha Harper Larane
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