{"id":38790,"date":"2025-04-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38790"},"modified":"2025-04-23T19:01:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T23:01:04","slug":"merton-of-the-movies-1947-starring-red-skelton-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38790","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Merton of the Movies&#8221; (1947) starring Red Skelton \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z042325zview_merton.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Merton of the Movies <\/strong><\/em>(1947)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Robert Alton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>George Wells, Lou Breslow\u00a0<\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YJlYLO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MERTON OF THE MOVIES<\/a> by <strong>Harry Leon Wilson <\/strong>and <em>Merton of the Movies<\/em> by George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Red Skelton, Virginia O&#8217;Brien<\/strong><strong>, Gloria Grahame, Leon Ames, Alan Mowbray, Douglas Fowley <\/strong>and <strong>Morris Ankrum<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Red Skelton&#8217;s Howling Hit About Hollywood!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230; <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Merton Gill is a theater usher who loves movies.\u00a0 Not only does Merton love them, but he dreams of being a movie star.\u00a0 Only thing is, Kansas is a long way from Hollywood.\u00a0 When Merton accidentally stops a robbery, he gets his fifteen minutes of fame.\u00a0 The story even reaches Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A movie star and his manager decide to cash in on Merton&#8217;s fame.\u00a0 They make a big production about bringing Merton to Hollywood to be the star&#8217;s prot\u00e9g\u00e9.\u00a0 When Merton arrives in Hollywood, there are press conferences, and Merton is treated like a king.\u00a0 After a few days, the publicity dies down and the star gives Merton a ticket home.\u00a0 Merton is crushed.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having no experience, Merton decides to stay.\u00a0 He&#8217;s more determined than ever to become a star.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Merton of the Movies<\/em> featured Virginia O&#8217;Brien in her last starring role.<\/p>\n<p>Buster Keaton was announced to star at one point.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>Merton of the Movies <\/strong><\/em>(1947) rates 3 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z042325zview_merton2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merton of the Movies (1947) Director:\u00a0 Robert Alton Screenplay: George Wells, Lou Breslow\u00a0based on MERTON OF THE MOVIES by Harry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38791,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38790\/revisions\/38791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}