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I Ought to Be in Pictures
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I Ought to Be in Pictures

Mar 26, 1982
1h 48m
★ 6.5

Libby Tucker hitchhiked from Brooklyn to take Hollywood by storm. And her father by surprise.

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama
Comedy

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

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Cast

Walter Matthau

Herbert Tucker

Walter Matthau

Ann-Margret

Steffy Blondell

Ann-Margret

Dinah Manoff

Libby Tucker

Dinah Manoff

Lance Guest

Gordon

Lance Guest

Michael Dudikoff

Boy on bus

Michael Dudikoff

Eugene Butler

Marty

Eugene Butler

David Faustino

Martin

David Faustino

Martin Ferrero

Monte Del Rey

Martin Ferrero

Tom Wright

Baseball Fan

Tom Wright

Art LaFleur

Baseball Fan

Art LaFleur

Allan Graf

Baseball Fan

Allan Graf

Charles Parks

Baseball Fan

Charles Parks