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Second Fiddle is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Sidney Lanfield released in USA on 30 june 1939 with Tyrone Power

Second Fiddle (1939)

Second Fiddle
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Released in USA 30 june 1939
Length 1h25
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Musical theatre,    Musical
Rating63% 3.1938053.1938053.1938053.1938053.193805

Second Fiddle is a 1939 American musical romance film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Rudy Vallee and Lyle Talbot. The score was composed by Irving Berlin. A Hollywood publicity agent falls in love with a new actress he helped to discover. The film parodies the extensive search for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. It is sometimes known as Irving Berlin's Second Fiddle.

Synopsis

Jimmy Sutton, the publicity agent of a major Hollywood studios, is taking part in the endless search to find an actress to star in the adaptation of a best-selling novel Girl of the North. In Minnesota he discovers Trudi Hovland a schoolteacher who is perfect for the part. After he tacking her back to Los Angeles she manages to secure the role. In an effort to boost their popularity, Jimmy organises a fake romance between Trudi and another Hollywood star, Roger Maxwell. He neglects to tell Trudi that Roger is already romantically involved with another actress and is only interested in publicity.

Actors

Tyrone Power

(Jimmy Sutton)Rudy Vallée

(Roger Maxwell)Edna May Oliver

(Aunt Phoebe)Mary Healy

(Jean Varick)Lyle Talbot

(Willie Hogger)
And :
Alan Dinehart, Sr.
Minna Gombell
Spencer Charters
George Chandler
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