- A starving actor, reduced to trying his luck in the movies, travels to Hollywood. His cat, Felix, poses as a travel bag and comes along.
- Felix decides to make his way to Hollywood, but has no money. The owner of a failing shoe store promises Felix $500 if he can help bring in new business, which Felix ingeniously manages to do, but the owner stiffs him out of the money. Felix finds a way to get to Hollywood, anyway, and while there meets up with the famous stars of the day, like Charlie Chaplin and Ben Turpin.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- The owner of the shoe store, after Felix makes a deal with him to help him avoid bankruptcy and does so, PAYS Felix the $500 just as he promised he would. Then, when Felix takes the money home so he and his preacher-type owner can go to Hollywood, it is his master who STIFFS him out of the money. But, the ever-resourceful Felix makes it to Hollwood anyway. Once there, he decides to see if he can get employment at Static Studios. For whatever inside joke reason Otto Messmer may have had, Felix has to audition for big-ears and bad-teeth Will Hays (caricature) in order to get a movie job. Hays was a former-USA Attorney General who, following the "Fatty" Arbuckel scandals and trials, was now in charge of seeing that no one in Hollywood got their morals corrupted...or, at least, ensuring the newspapers would not get wind of it. While there, Felix runs into caricatures of Ben Turpin and Charlie Chaplin and decides there is too much competition at Static Studio for him. Outside, Felix hears (and the audience reads) a cry for H-e-l-p! Down in the valley none other than dashing Douglas Fairbanks is tied to a stake and about to be stabbed/stung to death by three hornets (or maybe bumble-bees) and Felix heads to his rescue. But, first, Felix steals a pistol from Willilam S. Hart and flies to Doug's rescue. It turns out that it was only a movie scene being shot but, Cecil B. De Mille, the director is vastly impressed with Felix's work and tells him---in silent-cartoon speech balloon fashion---"Great Stuff" and, while shaking Felix's hand adds: "I'll give you one of those long-term contracts!" Unlike Hitchcock, Cecil didn't appear in front of the camera with out having a dialogue line or two, even if was in a speech-box. He was holding his megaphone in the event Sound came along before this cartoon was released.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
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