What Price Hollywood? (1932) 7.3
The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood producer. Director:George Cukor |
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What Price Hollywood? (1932) 7.3
The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood producer. Director:George Cukor |
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| Constance Bennett | ... |
Mary Evans
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Lowell Sherman | ... |
Max Carey
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| Neil Hamilton | ... |
Lonny Borden
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Gregory Ratoff | ... |
Julius Saxe
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Brooks Benedict | ... |
Muto
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Louise Beavers | ... |
The Maid
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George Reed | ... |
Undetermined Role
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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. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
A terrific picture and new to me. I think I had heard of it, perhaps showing at a pre-code festival at the Film Forum here in New York. Maybe not. Anyway caught it by accident on TCM today and what a find. Early George Cukor "woman's picture" I guess and has to be one of the earliest (1932) Hollywood pix about Hollywood. Brilliant, witty script with lots of stuff which would've been censored after the Code went into effect a couple of yrs. later. Great performances by Constance Bennett and Lowell Sherman, both of whose work I had very little knowledge of. I had never even heard of Lowell Sherman and he is just amazing in the role of a director with a drinking problem. Oh and that's Gregory Ratoff as foreign-born producer. I think he reprised that role a few times, of course most notably as Max Fabian in All About Eve, which was on the tube over the weekend and is hard to tune away from once you start watching...and listening, like this was. I could go on--but just catch it if you can!