Variety Girl (1947)

An ambitious starlet wannabe (Olga San Juan) is mistaken for another girl (Mary Hatcher) who is scheduled for a screen test at Paramount. The mix up causes all sorts of problems. Directed by George Marshall (HOW THE WEST WAS WON). What would ordinarily have been a B programmer is elevated into an A picture with the presence of a couple of dozen major stars, most of them Paramount contract players. Most of these appearances are cameos but some of the stars, notably Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, are featured more than the others. It's a predictable piece of fluff which is (very) modestly entertaining and the majority of the fun is star spotting. Some like Veronica Lake whisk by so quickly that you'll miss them if you blink while others like Alan Ladd get nice featured bits. Among the star laden cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, William Holden, Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Dorothy Lamour, Sterling Hayden, Gail Russell, Robert Preston, Diana Lynn, Barry Fitzgerald, Pearl Bailey, Lizabeth Scott, Joan Caulfield, William Bendix, Mona Freeman, Patric Knowles, John Lund, Sonny Tufts, Virginia Field, Richard Denning, Cass Daley, Spike Jones, DeForest Kelley and Paula Raymond.