--- title: 'The Star Maker (1939)' type: 'film' director: 'Roy Del Ruth' released: '1939-01-01' runtime_minutes: 94 genres: - 'Comedy' - 'History' - 'Music' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-star-maker-1939' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031974/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Star Maker (1939) 1939 · 94 min · Comedy, History, Music · United States ## Synopsis The Star Maker is a 1939 American musical film directed by Roy Del Ruth, written by Frank Butler, Don Hartman and Arthur Caesar, and starring Bing Crosby, Louise Campbell, Linda Ware, Ned Sparks, Laura Hope Crews, Janet Waldo and Walter Damrosch. Filming started in Hollywood on April 17, 1939 and was finished in June. The film was released on August 25, 1939, by Paramount Pictures, and had its New York premiere on August 30, 1939. It was the only film in which Crosby played a happily married man. ## Credits - **Director:** [Roy Del Ruth](https://cinepixo.com/people/roy-del-ruth) - **Screenplay:** [Frank Butler](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-butler) - **Original Music Composer:** [Alfred Newman](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-newman) - **Producer:** [Charles R. Rogers](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-r-rogers) - **Director of Photography:** [Karl Struss](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-struss) ## Cast - [Thurston Hall](https://cinepixo.com/people/thurston-hall) - [Laura Hope Crews](https://cinepixo.com/people/laura-hope-crews) - [Walter Damrosch](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-damrosch) - [Ned Sparks](https://cinepixo.com/people/ned-sparks) - [Oscar O'Shea](https://cinepixo.com/people/oscar-o-shea) - [Clara Blandick](https://cinepixo.com/people/clara-blandick) - [Emory Parnell](https://cinepixo.com/people/emory-parnell) - [Bing Crosby](https://cinepixo.com/people/bing-crosby) - [Dorothy Vaughan](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorothy-vaughan) - [Janet Waldo](https://cinepixo.com/people/janet-waldo) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-star-maker-1939 Film facts: Wikidata (Q10381822); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.