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What Price Hollywood? (DVD) (*)
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$20.99 $14.97

Original Title: Hollywood Madness (Hollywood Merry-Go-Round)
Alternate Title: The Truth About Hollywood
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards


Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Subtitles )


Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
87 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White


Movie filmed in 1932 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )


Directed By:
George Cukor


Written By:
Gene Fowler
Rowland Brown


Actors:
Constance Bennett ..... Mary Evans
Lowell Sherman ..... Maximillan 'Max' Carey
Neil Hamilton ..... Lonny Borden
Gregory Ratoff ..... Julius Saxe
Brooks Benedict ..... Muto, Diner Who Will Put Mary in Pictures
Louise Beavers ..... Bonita, Mary's Maid
George Reed ..... Undetermined Role (scenes deleted)
Alice Adair ..... Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson ..... James, Max's Butler (uncredited)
Sam Armstrong ..... (uncredited)
Zeena Baer ..... Undetermined Role (uncredited)
King Baggot ..... Department Head (uncredited)
Gerald Barry ..... John Reed, an Actor (uncredited)
Floyd Bell ..... Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Veda Buckland ..... Nana, Jackie's Nursemaid (uncredited)
Nicholas Caruso ..... Chef (uncredited)
L. Casey ..... Writer (uncredited)
Lita Chevret ..... Actress Filming on Movie Set (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin ..... Car Owner (uncredited)
Marcelle Corday ..... French Nursemaid (uncredited)
Adrienne D'Ambricourt ..... French Cook (uncredited)
William Davis ..... Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Gordon De Main ..... The 'Yes' Man (uncredited)
Eddie Dunn ..... Doorman at Grauman's Theater (uncredited)
Effie Ellsler ..... Brown Derby Diner (uncredited)
Jesse Ellwood ..... Bootblack (uncredited)
Patricia Farr ..... Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Fred Fisher ..... Undetermined Role (uncredited)
William Fletcher ..... Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Ken Foy ..... Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Grace Goodall ..... Department Head (uncredited)
Edna Gregory ..... Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Charlie Hall ..... Reporter (uncredited)
Aggie Herring ..... Flower Vendor (uncredited)
Jean Huntley ..... Cashier (uncredited)
Dolly Jarvis ..... Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Sheldon Jett ..... Studio Assistant Department Head in Screening Room (uncredited)
Tony Jurrick ..... Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Eliz Karlin ..... Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Charles Kerr ..... Photographer (uncredited)
Eleanor Kingston ..... Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Connie Lewis ..... Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Wilfred Lucas ..... Bill, Replacement Director (uncredited)
Jim Mason ..... Attorney Roberts (uncredited)
Torben Meyer ..... Nick, Brown Derby Headwaiter (uncredited)
Edmund Mortimer ..... Diner at Brown Derby (uncredited)
Paddy O'Flynn ..... Reporter (uncredited)
Charles O'Malley ..... Reporter (uncredited)
Jackie Paige ..... Baby Jackie Borden (uncredited)
George Periolat ..... Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Gus Reed ..... Department Head (uncredited)
Florence Roberts ..... Brown Derby Diner (uncredited)
Dick Rush ..... Policeman (uncredited)
Arline Ryam ..... Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Lewis Sargent ..... Reporter (uncredited)
Gertrude Short ..... Waitress Letting Mary Serve Max (uncredited)
Harry Strang ..... Reporter (uncredited)
Phil Tead ..... Jimmy, the Assistant Director (uncredited)
Jack Trainor ..... (uncredited)
Bryant Washburn ..... Washed-Up Star Telephoning in Brown Derby (uncredited)
Josephine Whittell ..... Miss DuPont, the Interviewer (uncredited)
Eric Wilton ..... Martin, Mary's Butler (uncredited)
Carol Wines ..... (uncredited)


Synopsis:
What Price Hollywood is often mistakenly referred to as the 'first' version of the oft-filmed A Star is Born. While there are strong resemblances between the two properties, Hollywood is in many respects a wholly separate entity. Constance Bennett plays a star-struck waitress who manages to make a good impression on prominent film director Lowell Sherman. With Sherman's patronage, Bennett rises to film stardom as 'America's Pal.' Sherman is gratified, but he keeps his distance; a chronic alcoholic, he is certain that his inevitable fall from grace will adversely affect Bennett's stardom. Impulsively, Bennett marries wealthy playboy NEIL HAMILTON, who genuinely loves his wife but is jealous of the demands made on her by her career. Hamilton walks out, but not before Bennett has been impregnated. Turning her attentions to her mentor Sherman, Bennett does everything she can to halt his career downslide, but it is too late. In a startlingly conceived sequence (utilizing slow motion and rapid-fire montage cutting), Sherman kills himself in Bennett's bedroom. When his body is found, the ensuing scandal destroys Bennett's career (represented visually by a life-sized cutout of 'America's Pal' shrinking into nothingness). Hoping to heal her emotional wounds, she flees to Paris with her child, where she is reunited with a contrite Hamilton. What Price Hollywood? producer David O. Selznick later claimed that most of the dialogue and situations in the film were drawn from life; he'd make the same claim upon producing the similar (but not identical) A Star is Born five years later. Somewhat perversely, Lowell Sherman based his performance-especially the inebriation scenes-on his then brother-in-law John Barrymore.

Brown Derby waitress Mary Evans befriends seldom-sober director Max Carey and is soon in the big-time. She hooks eastern millionaire Lonnie Borden but he soon tires of the Hollywood lifestyle and of playing second fiddle to a star. Carey looks on with interest when he can see straight.

The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood producer.
This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 26 March, 2011.
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