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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

Calvin Ander

Rabbi

Calvin Ander

Shelby Balik

Shelley

Shelby Balik

Larry Barton

Harry

Larry Barton

Eugene Butler

Marty

Eugene Butler

Bill Cross

Truck Driver

Bill Cross

Gillian Farrell

Waitress

Gillian Farrell

David Faustino

Martin

David Faustino

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