Crashing Hollywood

Educational Pictures made a short series of Hollywood Girls comedies. This one, just like the first, was directed by Fatty Arbuckle but unlike the first, "Crashing Hollywood" is quite funny and enjoyable.

When the story begins, a country cousin, Helen, arrives in Hollywood to make it big. She stays with her cousin and her friend and the pair assume Helen is very naïve since she's unfamiliar with the big city. However, again and again, Helen shocks them as she seems perfectly suited for the big time...and by the time she arrives at their apartment, a studio boss boss has ALREADY asked Helen to marry him!! What's next? See the film.

The story is cute and clever and, at times funny....none of which were present in the first film. Because of this, it's a major success...and is well worth seeing.

When Virginia Brooks comes to Hollywood, her cousin, Phyllis Crane, and Miss Crane's room mate, Rita Flynn, wonder how they're going to take care of her, with sixty cents between the two of them and the studios closed for the summer. But Miss Brooks has a talent for talking repo men out of their goods, and cash-only grocery store owners out of the makings for breakfast. Miss Crane tries to get the three of them into a studio through boy friend Eddie Nugent, which gets him fired, but the studio head lets them off, because he wants to marry Miss Brooks.

The second "Hollywood Girls" shorts is quite good. With characters established, director Roscoe Arbuckle can concentrate on the funny situations, including a wild Hollywood party that gets raided. See if you can spot 15-year-old Betty Grable among the players.