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An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
Cliff Edwards
- Ukelele Ike
- (as Ukulele Ike)
Nils Asther
- Nils Asther
- (scenes deleted)
Brox Sisters
- The Brox Sisters
- (as Brox Sisters - Singing Trio)
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- TriviaLon Chaney had just signed a new three picture a year deal with MGM when he was asked to do a cameo in the all-star film. Chaney agreed if it would count as one of his three contracted pictures and he would be paid his regular fee for the bit. As his salary would have eaten up most of the film's budget, the part was played by Gus Edwards with a mask and costume from London After Midnight (1927). Chaney was not happy that his name was exploited with the song, "Lon Chaney Will Get You if You Don't Watch Out." When he died in 1930, the sequence was deleted from existing prints out of respect but was later restored.
- GoofsAfter Cliff Edwards' opening number, one of the chorus girls in the background is chatting away with the girl next to her, when a sudden cut appears, and the same girl is now stone still (apparently the director told her in between to stop talking, and pay attention).
- Alternate versionsSome sources list the original running time of "Hollywood Revue of 1929" as 130 minutes. At least two sequences in the original roadshow version are missing from current prints: an opening recitation by the showgirls who are seen posing in the "Hollywood Revue" sign after the opening credits, and the appearance of Nils Asther, who assisted Jack Benny in introducing the final "Orange Blossom" number.
- ConnectionsAlternate-language version of Wir schalten um auf Hollywood (1931)
- SoundtracksSingin' in the Rain
(1929) (uncredited)
Music by Nacio Herb Brown
Lyrics by Arthur Freed
Played during the opening by The MGM Symphony Orchestra
Played on ukulele and sung by Cliff Edwards and The Brox Sisters; Danced by chorus
Sung by the major stars at the end
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Finally got around to seeing this on its recent outing on TCM, and despite the drawbacks - yes, it is slow-paced, yes, it is dated - there is a certain charm to it that makes it very enjoyable. I particularly liked the novelty acts and comedy stuff - Bessie Love, Marie Dressler, Laurel and Hardy and Buster Keaton's Egyptian lady. And the Gilbert/Shearer Romeo and Juliet section is worth sitting through the rest for anyway (despite its washed out colour, which oddly looked better in the little snippet showed in When The Lion Roars). I can't say I was disappointed with any of it - you get mind-boggling acrobats, you get weedy voiced Marion Davies, you get Jack Benny playing his violin and Conrad Nagel singing pretty well, and Charles King singing that hideous song about mothers, and Ukelele Ike, well, playing a ukelele, and Joan Crawford's ungainly dancing ... it's just a real treat, and nice to see from a technical pov that the sound isn't bad at all and despite its advanced age it is still watchable. A respectable 7 out of 10 I think.
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- M-G-M Revue
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- $5,277,780
- Runtime2 hours 10 minutes
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By what name was The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) officially released in India in English?
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