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You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940) was a Short Films Film directed by Friz Freleng and produced by Leon Schlesinger.

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The title is based on the song "You Ought to Be in Pictures" by Dana Suesse and Edward Heyman.
Porky Pig disguises himself as Oliver Hardy. He also makes reference to Errol Flynn. Daffy Duck makes references to Bette Davis, Fred Astaire and Greta Garbo (pronouncing the last as "Greeta").
The film being shot when Porky crashes the sound stage, taken from short subject made several years earlier, is Wonder Bar, more specifically the "Don't Say Goodnight" number. Busby Berkeley and Lloyd Bacon can be briefly glimpsed near the camera boom.
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