Show Girl In Hollywood
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| Show Girl In Hollywood (1930) | |
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| Directed by | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Produced by | Robert North |
| Written by | Harvey F. Thew James A. Starr based on the novel by J.P. McEvoy |
| Starring | Alice White Jack Mulhall Blanche Sweet Ford Sterling |
| Music by | Joseph Burke Ray Henderson |
| Cinematography | Sol Polito (Technicolor) |
| Editing by | Peter Fritch |
| Distributed by | First National Pictures: A Subsidiary of Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | April 20, 1930 |
| Running time | 80 Minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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Show Girl In Hollywood (1930) is an All-Talking musical comedy/drama film with Technicolor sequences. It was adapted from the novel "Hollywood Girl" by J.P. McEvoy.
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[edit] Synopsis
Show Girl in Hollywood tells the story of a young girl, Dixie Dugan (Alice White), who is lured to Hollywood by the empty promises of a pompous film director (John Miljan). Her boyfriend (Jack Mulhall) is not too keen on the idea. Once there, she soon realizes who empty the director's promises were. She meets and becomes friends with Donny Harris (Blanche Sweet), a once popular film star. Dixie does get her break but ruins things by getting temperamental. In the process, she also ruins Donny's chances for a comeback, who then attempts suicide. She is saved and Dixie realizes her selfishness and convinces the studio bosses to "go on with the picture", for Donny's sake.
[edit] Trivia
Al Jolson (and his wife Ruby Keeler), Noah Beery (with his son), Walter Pidgeon and Loretta Young make a cameo appearance in this film in the final reel, which was photographed in Technicolor. All four of these actors were big stars for Warner Bros. in 1930 but only two of them (Al Jolson and Loretta Young) managed to keep their popularity beyond the early talkie period.
[edit] Songs
- "I've Got My Eye on You"
- "Hang Onto a Rainbow"
- "There's a Tear for Every Smile in Hollywood"
- "Merrily We Roll Along"
[edit] Preservation
The film only survives in black and white. The last reel was originally in Technicolor but no color prints seem to have survived.
