Featuring Kathleen Wilhoite and John Short.
Ace reporter Brenda Starr (Shields) clashes with Libby Lipscomb (Scarwid), a reporter from a rival newspaper.
The 1940s comic strip character comes to life in this spoofish, tongue-in-cheek, fantasy adventure directed by Robert Ellis Miller (Any Wednesday, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter). Screenplay by Noreen Stone, James D. Buchanan, & Delia Ephron.Co-starring Timothy Dalton, Charles Durning, Henry Gibson, and Tony Peck (Gregory Peck's son) as the cartoonist who inadvertently brings Brenda of the comics into the real world.
Brenda Starr's costumes were designed by Bob Mackie.
The character of Brenda Starr was created in 1940 by Dalia Messick (one of America's first syndicated female cartoonists) under the gender-ambiguous name Dale Messick.
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