Once in a Lifetime (1932)Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies. Director:Russell Mack |
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Once in a Lifetime (1932)Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies. Director:Russell Mack |
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Jack Oakie | ... | |
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Sidney Fox | ... | |
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Aline MacMahon | ... | |
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Russell Hopton | ... | |
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Louise Fazenda | ... | |
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Gregory Ratoff | ... | |
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Jobyna Howland | ... |
Mrs. Walker
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Onslow Stevens | ... | |
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Gregory Gaye | ... | |
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Eddie Kane | ... |
Meterstein
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Johnnie Morris | ... |
Weiskopf
(as Johnny Morris)
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Frank LaRue | ... |
The Bishop
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| Margaret Lindsay | ... |
Dr. Lewis' Secretary
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Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
There ought to be a movement to bring this one back from the dead. This is a film for which the term "revival" seems to have been invented. No matter a certain staginess -- its humor and topicality, not to mention its place in history as the first collaboration between George S Kaufman and Moss Hart, make it a "must see." It's not only connected to other early Thirties films like What Price Hollywood, but also to the much adulated Singin' In the Rain. If the latter is a Fifties musical displaying the well-scrubbed brightness of that era's sensibilities, then Once In A Lifetime is its counterpoint, betraying a Depression-era, acerbic grasp of the absurdity of the movie business and of "human business" in general. It ought to be on a double bill with Harlow's Bombshell -- another clever and entertaining early 1930s view of Hollywood and the "geniuses" who ran it.