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2 October 1932 (USA)
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Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies. | add synopsis
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(Complete credited cast) | Jack Oakie | ... | George Lewis |
| Sidney Fox | ... | Susan Walker |
| Aline MacMahon | ... | May Daniels |
| Russell Hopton | ... | Jerome 'Jerry' Hyland |
| Louise Fazenda | ... | Helen Hobart |
| Zasu Pitts | ... | Miss Leyton |
| Gregory Ratoff | ... | Herman Glogauer |
| Jobyna Howland | ... | Mrs. Walker |
| Onslow Stevens | ... | Lawrence Vail |
| Gregory Gaye | ... | Rudolph Kammerling |
| Eddie Kane | ... | Meterstein |
| Johnnie Morris | ... | Weiskopf (as Johnny Morris) |
| Frank LaRue | ... | The Bishop |
| Margaret Lindsay | ... | Dr. Lewis' Secretary |
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91 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording Sound System)
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USA:Approved (PCA #3158) (24 February 1937)
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Herman Gloguaer:
What did they have to go and make pictures talk for? Things were going along fine. You couldn't stop making money - even if you turned out a good picture you made money.
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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.