Monsieur Dodd part pour Hollywood

Titre original : Stand-In

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Joan Blondell and Leslie Howard in Monsieur Dodd part pour Hollywood (1937)

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA New York bank plans to sell a Hollywood studio at a big loss. But the head accountant is suspicious and goes to investigate. He finds chicanery, romance, and help to save the studio.A New York bank plans to sell a Hollywood studio at a big loss. But the head accountant is suspicious and goes to investigate. He finds chicanery, romance, and help to save the studio.A New York bank plans to sell a Hollywood studio at a big loss. But the head accountant is suspicious and goes to investigate. He finds chicanery, romance, and help to save the studio.

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Leslie Howard

Atterbury Dodd

Humphrey Bogart

Douglas Quintain

Joan Blondell

Lester Plum

Alan Mowbray

Koslofski

Marla Shelton

Thelma Cheri

C. Henry Gordon

Ivor Nassau

Jack Carson

Tom Potts

Tully Marshall

Fowler Pettypacker

J.C. Nugent

Junior Pettypacker

William V. Mong

Cyrus Pettypacker

Art Baker

Director of Photography
(non crédité)

Ralph Brooks

Dancer
(non crédité)

Florie Caprino

Elvira
(non crédité)

Marianne Edwards

Elvira
(non crédité)

Jinx Falkenburg

Woman at Studio Gate
(non crédité)

Jim Farley

Studio Gate Guard
(non crédité)

Pat Flaherty

Nightclub Bouncer
(non crédité)

Charles K. French

Bank Board Member
(non crédité)

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Anecdotes
The former silent film star in the boarding house, desperate for a small role in a film, is played by Mary MacLaren, a former leading lady of the silent film era who, by the time this film was made, was working as a (sporadically successful) extra. Coincidentally, MacLaren's character is named Naomi; in the 1930's, one of MacLaren's silent era contemporaries, Naomi Childers, was also frequently employed as a background actress in Hollywood at MGM.

Gaffes
As accountant Atterbury Dodd walks through the accounts department, a clerk gives him a slip containing a list of figures which total 1,296,221. Dodd says: "There's an error in the addition. The total should be 1,296,321. Have the machine fixed". The total however is correct. The figures - 63,155; 122,925; 57,005; 54,685; 404,200; 56,705; 122,925; 54,685; 305,250; 54,686 - add up to 1,296,221.

Citations
Koslofski: Great pictures are not made... they are remade!

Connexions
Featured in Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)

Bandes originales
Is It True What They Say About Dixie?
(1936) (uncredited)
Written by Irving Caesar, Samuel Lerner and Gerald Marks (1936)
Sung by an unidentified child actress called Elvira with Anne O'Neal playing harmonica

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Hollywood spoof

From the moment you see an epic movie about gorillas, or performing seals in a boarding house, or horrendously untalented little kids with showbiz mommas, you know you have a marvellous Follywood spoof.

This little-mentioned or cited comedy pits snappy Joan Blondell against of all people versatile Leslie Howard, in a studio-set tale of corruption, change, and romance. You'll also find Humphrey Bogart in one of his climbing-up-the ladder roles as a crusty, hard-drinking backroom man.

Blondell plays the stand-in' of the title, that is, the girl who burns under the lights while the leading lady gets pampered and the shot gets set up. Howard is an accountant, transported into a world he doesn't initially appreciated, to discover the reason for the studio's cash-flow problems.

Do you know how it ends yet? This was the film that persuaded me of Howard's incredible gift for getting laughs as well as his dramatic skills, and I've been a fan ever since. Blondell and Bogart are also terrific, and this is a minor, but hugely enjoyable, 30s gem.