What Price Hollywood?

1932
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1 Std. 28 Min.

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Constance Bennett and Neil Hamilton in What Price Hollywood? (1932)

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuThe career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood director.The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood director.The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood director.

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7,0/10

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Constance Bennett

Mary Evans

Lowell Sherman

Max Carey

Neil Hamilton

Lonny Borden

Gregory Ratoff

Julius Saxe

Brooks Benedict

Muto

Louise Beavers

The Maid

George Reed

Undetermined Secondary Role
(Gelöschte Szenen)

Alice Adair

Undetermined Secondary Role
(Nicht genannt)

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

James - Max's Butler
(Nicht genannt)

Sam Armstrong

Undetermined Secondary Role
(Nicht genannt)

Zeena Baer

Secretary to Julius Saxe
(Nicht genannt)

King Baggot

Department Head
(Nicht genannt)

Gerald Barry

John Reed - an Actor
(Nicht genannt)

Floyd Bell

Undetermined Secondary Role
(Nicht genannt)

Veda Buckland

Nana - Jackie's Nursemaid
(Nicht genannt)

Nicholas Caruso

Chef at Brown Derby
(Nicht genannt)

L. Casey

Writer
(Nicht genannt)

Lita Chevret

Actress Filming on Movie Set
(Nicht genannt)

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Wissenswertes
This film bears such a striking resemblance to Ein Stern geht auf (1937) that it is often considered "the original version" of that often remade classic. In fact, David O. Selznick, who produced both this film and Star is Born, was threatened with a lawsuit by this film's writers, claiming plagiarism.

Patzer
When the screen shows a newspaper gossip column, we can see part of an item relating a joke about a Jewish boy and a bird. Several months later, another gossip column shows the identical item.

Zitate
Max Carey: Every hour that you're out of jail you're away from home.

Crazy Credits
There is a "by" credit to Gene Fowler and Rowland Brown after the title shows, but there is also a "screenplay by" credit to Jane Murfin and Ben Markson, without leaving any clear explanation or context as to what "by" actually means. But the reality was that Fowler and Brown wrote the real screenplay, with Murfin and Markson providing the continuity.

Verbindungen
Featured in David O. Selznick: 'Your New Producer' (1935)

Soundtracks
Three Little Words
(1930) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Ruby
Part of a medley played during the opening credits

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8/10

Melodramatic and predictable but good

Alcoholic director Max Carey (Lowell Sherman) discovers waitress Mary Evans (Constance Bennett). She becomes a big star and marries handsome Lonny Borden (Neil Hamilton)...but Carey's alcoholism starts to kill him and Lonny can't deal with his wife's stardom....

Very predictable but good. This movie moves VERY quickly; is well-directed by George Cukor; has some sharp pre-Code dialogue and has a good script that gives an interesting look at Hollywood in the 1930s. The church sequence especially is fascinating. It gets a little overly silly at the end but it still works.

Bennett is just great--beautiful and believable; Sherman was good also; Hamilton is just so-so but he's unbelievably handsome so that helps. Gregory Ratoff also gets some laughs as a VERY excitable studio head.

This was (pretty obviously) the inspiration for the later "A Star Is Born" movies but stands on its own merit. I give it an 8.