Writing

Jimmy Starr

Born February 3, 1904 · Clarksville, Texas, USA

Died August 13, 1990 · aged 86

No biography available.

Known For

Show Girl in HollywoodShow Girl in Hollywood · 1930
Show Girl in Hollywood
★ 5.81930
MovieComedyDrama
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.
A New Kind of LoveA New Kind of Love · 1963
A New Kind of Love
★ 6.21963
MovieComedyRomance
A down-and-out reporter and a fashion designer fall in love in Paris.
365 Nights in Hollywood365 Nights in Hollywood · 1934
365 Nights in Hollywood
★ 9.01934
MovieComedy
Down-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school. He is drawn into the plans of the school's owner to bilk a wealthy young man out of the funds he has supplied to shoot a movie starring pretty student Alice Perkins. But Jimmie hopes to bilk the bilkers by actually completing the movie as ostensibly planned.
That's Right – You're WrongThat's Right – You're Wrong · 1939
That's Right – You're Wrong
★ 6.21939
MovieMusicComedy
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.
The Corpse Came C.O.D.The Corpse Came C.O.D. · 1947
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
★ 6.51947
MovieComedyMystery
Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.
Wide OpenWide Open · 1930
Wide Open
★ 5.81930
MovieComedy
An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.
The Other TomorrowThe Other Tomorrow · 1930
The Other Tomorrow
★ 10.01930
MovieDramaRomance
The Other Tomorrow, a love-triangle drama, is a lost American Pre-Code film, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros.
Out California WayOut California Way · 1946
Out California Way
★ 7.51946
MovieWesternMusic
Newcomer Monte Hale is tying to just get a job in western films when he meet young Danny McCoy and his sister Gloria. Danny is trying to get his horse, "Pardner" into films. Monte sings a song and "Pardner" does some tricks and a casting director notices. Monte gets a singing-cowboy role and the horse gets a bit, but there is an accidental explosion, engineered by western star Rod Mason, who is jealous of Monte, and the horse is badly scared and blows his lines.

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That's Right – You're WrongThat's Right – You're Wrong · 1939
That's Right – You're Wrong
★ 6.21939
MovieMusicComedy
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.

Jimmy Starr (Uncredited)