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As Hollywood's Golden Age is winding down during the summer of 1969, television actor Rick Dalton and his stunt double Cliff Booth endeavor to achieve lasting success in Hollywood while meeting several colorful characters along the way.

Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.

When barrio leader Henry Reyna and his friends are unjustly convicted on circumstantial evidence, activist lawyers Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant racially motivated miscarriage of justice to win them their freedom.

American singer Johnny Tyronne is enlisted by sinister forces to assassinate an Arab king--and falls in love with that very king's daughter.

Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, the defeated racketeer-politician, has Earl Carroll and several of his acts kidnapped, figuring the kidnapping coup will cause Jones to be laughed out of office. In Carroll's absence his assistant, Ramona Lisa, and his press agent, Barney Nelson put on the show themselves with the remaining talent, the chorus girls and also pressing into the entertainment cigarette girls, cloakroom girls, the doorman and others including oil heiresses Brenda Gusher and Cobina Gusher. Carroll and the other prisoners make their escape when a kidnapped juggling act sends their captors down in a barrage of beer bottles.

This travelogue promoting Hollywood tourism offers brief looks at several of the town's landmarks as well as quick glimpses of stars and their homes.

A Universal musical short, featuring Latin-American music, with Carlos Molina and His Orchestra; The Herrera Twins, Maria Antonia and Maria Esther, from "Down Mexico Way"; The Guadalajara Trio, seen in "Down Argentina Way" and "Week End in Havana"; singers Luis de Campos and Marina Koshetz; and the dance team of Igor & Poggi (Igor Dega and Grace Poggi,) headliners at Earl Carrolls Theatre/Restaurant in Hollywood.