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How to Be Very, Very Popular

How to Be Very, Very Popular

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How to Be Very, Very Popular

"Rock'n Roll hits the screen for the first time in the picture that separates the men from the boys !"

1955

1h 29m

4.6(8 votes)

Comedy

Overview

Two strippers on the run hide out in a college fraternity. Director Nunnally Johnson's 1955 musical comedy stars Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Tommy Noonan, Orson Bean, Fred Clark, Alice Pearce, Rhys Williams, Willard Waterman, Leslie Parrish and Jesslyn Fax.

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20th Century Fox

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Betty Grable

Betty Grable

Stormy Tornado

Sheree North

Sheree North

Curly Flagg

Robert Cummings

Robert Cummings

Fillmore 'Wedge' Wedgewood

Charles Coburn

Charles Coburn

Dr. Tweed

Tommy Noonan

Tommy Noonan

Eddie Jones

Charlotte Austin

Charlotte Austin

Midge

Orson Bean

Orson Bean

Toby Marshall

Fred Clark

Fred Clark

B.J. Marshall

Alice Pearce

Alice Pearce

Miss 'Syl' Sylvester

Rhys Williams

Rhys Williams

Cedric Flagg

Creative team

Directed by: Nunnally Johnson
Written by: Nunnally Johnson
Produced by: Nunnally Johnson

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