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Spotlight Scandals or Spotlight Revue is a 1943 American musical comedy film directed by William Beaudine. [1] It was the first of a four-picture contract comic actor Billy Gilbert signed with Monogram Pictures. Butch and Buddy, the team who appeared with Gilbert at Universal, travelled with them. The film was originally called 24 Hours Leave.
Spotlight Scandals: Directed by William Beaudine. With Billy Gilbert, Frank Fay, Bonnie Baker, Billy Lenhart. A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act.
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- Comedy, Drama, Music
- William Beaudine
- 1943-09-24
A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act. Its success eventually leads them to Broadway, but things start to go awry.Di...
- 71 min
- 11.4K
- Cult Cinema Classics
Spotlight tackled a very difficult subject matter and, overall, told the true story accurately, though the film did make some changes to real-life events. Directed by Todd McCarthy from a script by McCarthy and Josh Singer, Spotlight is about the Boston Globe investigative reporting team that exposed the widespread systemic sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests in the Archdiocese ...
Spotlight Scandals. Released Sep 24, 1943 1h 18m Musical Comedy. No score yet. Reviews. No audience score yet. Partnership with a vaudeville comic (Frank Fay) leads to stardom, then self-sacrifice ...
- Musical, Comedy
- Billy Gilbert
- William Beaudine
The investigation of the scandal by The Boston Globe was titled "Spotlight Investigation: Abuse in the Catholic Church". Its in-depth reporting was the central subject of Tom McCarthy 's film Spotlight in 2015, which won two Academy Awards including Best Picture .
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Vaudevillian Frank Fay is stranded in a small Midwestern town because he is broke. After he bilks barber Billy Gilbert out of ten dollars, the guileless Billy auditions for him over dinner. Despite discouragement from Frank, Billy insists on taking the performer back to New York, where he hopes to launch his own theater career.
