How to Be Very, Very, Popular (1955)
- Starring:
- Betty Grable, Sheree North, (more)
- Director(s):
- Nunnally Johnson
Synopsis of How to Be Very, Very, Popular
Betty Grable's final film was a remake of the 1934 Bing Crosby-Miriam Hopkins musicomedy She Loves Me Not, which in turn was based on a play by Howard Lindsay. Betty and Sheree North star as a couple of striptease "artistes" who have the bad luck to witness a murder. Hoping to evade the killer, the girls hide out in a small college town, where they immediately win the hearts of the male frat brothers. One of these is overaged undergrad Robert Cummings, who falls for Betty, while Sheree settles for not-terribly-bright Orson Bean. A subplot concerns the unending get-rich-quick schemes of college president Charles Coburn. Before the story can be resolved, both Betty and Sheree are placed under hypnosis, with hilarious results. It could not have rested well with Betty Grable that Sheree North stole the show in How to Be Very, Very Popular--especially with her energetic rendition of "Shake, Rattle and Roll"--but Betty was on the verge of retiring anyway, so what the heck? ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of How to Be Very, Very, Popular
- Betty Grable - Stormy
- Robert Cummings - Wedgewood
- Tommy Noonan - Eddie
- Fred Clark - Mr. Marshall
- Alice Pearce - Miss Syl
- Andrew Tombes - Moon
- Emory Parnell - Chief of Police
- Jesslyn Fax - Music Teacher
- Harry Seymour - Teacher
- Edmund Cobb - Policeman
- Howard Petrie
- Jack Mather - 1st Policeman
- Willard Waterman
- Leslie Parrish - Girl on Bus
- Sheree North - Curly
- Charles Coburn - Tweed
- Orson Bean - Toby
- Charlotte Austin - Midge
- Rhys Williams - Flagg
- Noel Toy - Cherry Blossom Wang
- Harry Carter - Bus Driver
- Milton Parsons - Mr. X
- Janice Carroll
- Hank Mann - Newsvendor
- Michael Lally - 2nd Policeman
- Jean Holcombe
- Tony Randall
- Stanley Farrar
- Director(s):
- Nunnally Johnson
- Writer(s):
- Nunnally Johnson
- Producer(s):
- Nunnally Johnson
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