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Show Girl in Hollywood (1930)

 -  Comedy | Musical | Drama  -  20 April 1930 (USA)
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'Rainbow Girls' has just opened and closed on Broadway when Dixie, a actress in it, runs into smooth talking Hollywood Director Frank Buelow. He tells her she would be a natural, promises ... See full summary »

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Cast

Complete credited cast:
Alice White ...
Dixie Dugan
Jack Mulhall ...
Jimmie Doyle
Blanche Sweet ...
Donny Harris
Ford Sterling ...
Sam Otis - The Producer
John Miljan ...
Frank Buelow - The Director
Virginia Sale ...
Otis' Secretary
Lee Shumway ...
Kramer
Herman Bing ...
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'Rainbow Girls' has just opened and closed on Broadway when Dixie, a actress in it, runs into smooth talking Hollywood Director Frank Buelow. He tells her she would be a natural, promises her a movie contract, and so she goes to Hollywood, but there is no contract for her. She meets Donny, a washed-up veteran actress (Blanche Sweet), on the lot who becomes her friend. Frank is fired from his studio and the new director finds that Frank's storyline is actually a copy of 'Rainbow Girls' stage play from Broadway. They call Jimmy, the author and Dixie's boyfriend, for the rights and he goes to Hollywood to produce it as a movie. Dixie gets the lead. But things start going wrong when Dizzy Dixie, spurred on by the fired Director Buelow, thinks that she is better than the picture or the studio and starts making demands. Interesting note: Good look at early Hollywood, with cameos by Loretta Young, Walter Pigeon, Noah Beery and a young Noah Beery, Jr. make the film fun to watch Written by Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com> kimber.palmer@gmail.com

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Comedy | Musical | Drama

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20 April 1930 (USA)  »

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Estrelas de Hollywood  »

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(Western Electric Apparatus)

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(2-strip Technicolor) (last reel)|

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1.37 : 1
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Originally, the last ten minute reel was in 2-color Technicolor, but it only presently survives in black-and-white. See more »

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Featured in Hollywood (1980) See more »

Soundtracks

"I've Got My Eye on You"
(1930) (uncredited)
Music by Sam H. Stept
Lyrics by Bud Green
Sung by Alice White (dubbed by Belle Mann)
Reprised by White and Chorus
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25 January 2000 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

Some years ago, I bought the novel for 25 cents in a library book sale. It was obviously published as a movie tie-in since it contained tantalizing stills from the film. Since I could not find a listing in any of the popular film guides, I presumed it was another "lost film" until I caught it on cable earlier this month. In this context, the quality of the film was irrelevant and I agree it was slow-going. The exception was Blanche Sweet-- a name entirely unknown to me until this film. Her performance was both understated and devastating, delineating the soul-rending panic that aging Hollywood actresses must still feel today. It's an odd feeling to be moved by performance that was filmed 70 years ago: I'm glad I wasn't alone in appreciating its underlying desperation.


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