Show Girl in Hollywood
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Director Mervyn LeRoy Screenplay J. P. McEvoy Duration Language English | 7/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Musical, Drama Music director Ray Henderson, Joe Burke Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date April 20, 1930 (1930-04-20) Based on Hollywood Girl
by J. P. McEvoy Writer J.P. McEvoy (based on the story by), Harvey F. Thew (adapted by) Cast Alice White (Dixie Dugan), Jack Mulhall (Jimmie Doyle), Blanche Sweet (Donny Harris), Ford Sterling (Sam Otis - The Producer), John Miljan (Frank Buelow - The Director), Virginia Sale (Otis' Secretary)Similar movies Related Mervyn LeRoy movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A New York show girl is discovered by a big movie producer and is taken to Hollywood to become the next big star.
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Show Girl in Hollywood is a 1930 American Pre-Code all-talking musical comedy-drama film with Technicolor sequences, produced and distributed by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros.. The film stars Alice White, Jack Mulhall and Blanche Sweet. It was adapted from the 1929 novel Hollywood Girl, by J. P. McEvoy.
Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, Noah Beery, Walter Pidgeon, and Loretta Young make cameo appearances in the final reel, which was photographed in Technicolor. Show Girl in Hollywood is a sequel to the 1928 Warner Bros. silent film Show Girl which also starred Alice White as Dixie Dugan.
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.
Synopsis
When the film begins, a musical show before closed down before it has had a chance to even open. Jimmie Doyle (Jack Mulhall), who wrote the musical intends to rewrite it while his girlfriend, Dixie Dugan (Alice White), fed up at wasting her time for a show that never even opened, is intent on finding a new career. While at a nightclub, Dixie does a musical number and catches the eye of Frank Buelow (John Miljan), a Hollywood director. Buelow persuades Dixie to go to Hollywood, where he will have a part waiting for her in his upcoming films.
Dixie takes the next train to California. When she arrives, she is disappointed to find that Buelow has been fired from the studio and that there is no part for her. Dixie meets Donny Harris (Blanche Sweet), a former star who is now out of work because she is considered "as old as the hills" at the age of 32. Soon after, Dixie discovers that Jimmie Doyle is now in Hollywood because one of the movie studios had just bought the film rights to his musical play. Jimmie had insisted that Dixie be given the lead in the film version of his play. The film goes into production and Dixie manages to get Donny included in the cast. One day, Dixie meets Frank Buelow at a restaurant and tells her that he is now working for another studio. Through his influence, Buelow manages to change Dixie into a temperamental and conceited actress and this leads to complications which almost end her film career.
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Foreign language version
A French version of the film, titled Le masque dHollywood, and was directed by Clarence G. Badger and John Daumery.
Reception
Show Girl in Hollywood received good reviews. Photoplay called the film Alice Whites best talkie to date, and described it as "first-rate entertainment, in spite of a soggy spot or two."
Preservation
The film only survives in a black and white copy only. The last reel was originally filmed in Technicolor but is now considered lost.
DVD release
Show Girl in Hollywood was released on DVD as part of the Warner Archive Collection in December 2009.
References
Show Girl in Hollywood WikipediaShow Girl in Hollywood IMDb Show Girl in Hollywood themoviedb.org