Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966) on Netflix
Jeff Dillon, an investigative reporter for Fame magazine, looks into the death of a call girl. Her address book holds the names of prominent people, and he begins working through them.
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Plot summary
Fame magazine, a publication of Janus Enterprises, employs Jeff Dillon as an investigative reporter, and Glenn Howard is its managing editor. The death of a call girl puts Dillon on the story, and her address book yields the names and numbers of prominent people. A new editorial assistant joins him as he works through the list, treating each name as a possible lead in the woman's death.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- In the weeks before its first broadcast, NBC ran an unprecedented blitz of TV ads that wrongly billed Fame Is the Name of the Game as television's first "world premiere" of a "major motion picture".
- The film gave 20-year-old Susan Saint James her screen debut, as Peggy Chan, investigative journalist Jeff Dillon's new editorial assistant; the character was renamed Peggy Maxwell for the series.
- It was the first of at least twelve made-for-television movies that Universal produced for NBC, some of which were pilots for series.
