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I Ought to Be in Pictures

Libby Tucker hitchhiked from Brooklyn to take Hollywood by storm. And her father by surprise.
Mar 26, 1982 · 1h 48m
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Drama
Comedy

PLOT

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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CAST

Walter Matthau
Herbert Tucker
Ann-Margret
Steffy Blondell
Dinah Manoff
Libby Tucker
Lance Guest
Gordon
Michael Dudikoff
Boy on bus
Eugene Butler
Marty
David Faustino
Martin
Martin Ferrero
Monte Del Rey
Directed by Herbert Ross

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
20th Century Fox
Country
US

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