Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

13 October 1939 (USA) See more »

Also Known As:

Assim Nasceu o Cinema See more »

Filming Locations:

20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »

Budget:

$2,000,000 (estimated)

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation See more »

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Runtime:

97 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Color:

Black and White  | Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Trivia

Although a Twentieth Century-Fox picture, this is one of the few Hollywood-made films in which one studio (Fox) acknowledges and names the existence of another (Warner Bros.) and credits them with the introduction of talking pictures. Don Ameche is actually shown watching a scene from Warner's The Jazz Singer , probably the only instance in Holywood history where one studio shows another studio's work within a film. Another rarity is that the head of the studio (J. Edward Bromberg) is openly portrayed as being Jewish. In later years Bromberg was blacklisted and ended up committing suicide. Fans of W.C. Fields will recognize Russell Hicks, who plays the stone-hearted money-man Roberts in "Hollywood Calvacade," as fast-talking con man J. Frothingham Waterbury, who sold Fields shares in the Beefstake Mine in the classic comedy The Bank Dick. See more »

Connections

Featured in Take It or Leave It (1944) See more »

Soundtracks

"Oh, You Beautiful Doll"
(1911)
Music by Nat Ayer
Lyrics by A. Seymour Brown
Played as accompaniment for a silent film See more »