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Selected Films, A to Z
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full credits from IMDb
"The Ghosts of Edendale" [video Oct 2004]
full credits from IMDb
http://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Edendale-Jay-Brown/dp/B0002TT0OG/
"Going Hollywood" [Cosmopolitan/M.G.M. Dec 1933]
 | A pretty French teacher takes off for Hollywood to save radio singer Bill from the clutches of his costar. Musical feature film directed by Raoul Walsh; script by Donald Ogden Stewart, based on a story by Frances Marion; starring Marion Davies, Bing Crosby, Fifi D'Orsay, Stuart Erwin, Ned Sparks & Patsy Kelly DVD/Blu-ray not available • M.G.M. Video & DVD b&w VHS [2/95] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Going Hollywood: The 30s" documentary [Castle Hill TV 1984]
 | "A time trip back to the 1930s" • Co-produced by Leonard Maltin & Beverly Irby Schlossberg; co-produced & directed by Julian Schlossberg; written by Charles Badaracco; hosted by Robert Preston; with archive footage of Gracie Allen, George Arliss, Jean Arthur, Fred Astaire, Mischa Auer, George Bancroft, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Constance Bennett, Joan Blondell, Eric Blore, Humphrey Bogart, William Boyd, Charles Boyer, Joe E. Brown, George Burns, Spring Byington, James Cagney, John Carradine, Jack Carson, Charlie Chaplin, Maurice Chevalier, Berton Churchill, Joe Cobb, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Bette Davis, Cecil B. DeMille, Andy Devine, Marlene Dietrich, Lee Duncan, Jimmy Durante, W.C. Fields, Pat Flaherty, Henry Fonda, Clark Gable, Charley Grapewin, Oliver Hardy, Jean Harlow, Ted Healy, Samuel S. Hinds, Tim Holt, Herbert Hoover, Leslie Howard, Walter Huston, Selmer Jackson, Chic Johnson, Al Jolson, Boris Karloff, Buster Keaton, Hedy Lamarr, Harry Langdon, Stan Laurel, Carole Lombard, Walter Long, Edmund Lowe, Bela Lugosi, Fredric March, Groucho & Harpo Marx, Donald Meek, Charles Middleton, Thomas Mitchell, Grace Moore, Alan Mowbray, Ole Olsen, the 'Our Gang' kids: Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Darla Hood, George 'Spanky' McFarland, Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas, Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer, Lynne Overman, Eugene Pallette, Franklin Pangborn, Louise Platt, Dick Powell, William Powell, animal actor Rin Tin Tin, Ginger Rogers, Will Rogers, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, Sylvia Sidney, Shirley Temple, The Three Stooges: Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Moe Howard, Claire Trevor, Tom Tyler, Rudy Vallee, John Wayne, Johnny Weissmuller, Mae West
Echo Bridge color/b&w DVD [6/2005] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • watch full movie [11/2018 upload; 1:12:13] online at YouTube |
"The Great Waldo Pepper"
[Universal March 1975]
 | Too young to fly in World War I, Waldo barnstorms across America with veterans of combat, then gets a chance to prove his skills in aerial dogfights for the movies. Co-produced, co-written & directed by George Roy Hill; co-written by William Goldman; cinematography by Robert Surtees; music by Henry Mancini; starring Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Bo Brundin, Susan Sarandon, Geoffrey Lewis, Edward Herrmann, Philip Bruns & Margot Kidder
Goodtimes Home Video color DVD [7/98] out of prodn/used Universal color VHS [4/92] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb 11"x17" blue poster from Amazon for $9.99 11"x17" yellow poster (at left) from Amazon for $9.99 script with photographs, by William Goldman & George Roy Hill Dell mass pb [3/75] out of print/used |
"Grey Matter (Matière Grise)" [Rwanda 2010, USA 2012?] /tt1890465/
Co-produced, written & directed by Kivu Ruhorahoza
"Hollywood" silent feature [Paramount Aug 1923]
 | A girl wanting to be a star in the movies goes to Hollywood, accompanied by her grandfather; Grandpa becomes a star, and when the rest of the family shows up to help, they all also become stars • Directed by James Cruze; starring Hope Drown, Luke Cosgrave, George K. Arthur, Ruby Lafayette, Harris Gordon, Bess Flowers, Eleanor Lawson, King Zany, with cameos by dozens of Silent Era celebrities as themselves, including: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Richard Arlen, Mary Astor, 'Baby Peggy' Montgomery, Noah Beery, William Boyd, Charlie Chaplin, Ricardo Cortez, Viola Dana, Bebe Daniels, Cecil B. DeMille, Douglas Fairbanks, James Finlayson, Alec B. Francis, Sid Grauman, Alan Hale, William S. Hart, Jack Holt & baby Tim Holt, May McAvoy, Owen Moore, Nita Naldi, Pola Negri, Anna Q. Nilsson, Charles Ogle, Jack & Mary Pickford, Zasu Pitts, Ford Sterling,
Gloria Swanson & Ben Turpin
video/DVD not available (all prints/negatives presumed lost) • full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Hollywood & Vine" [April 1945] /tt0037786/
"Hollywood & Vine" [2008] /tt1318525/
"Hollywood & Vine" [2017?] /tt4156056/
"Hollywood & Vines" TV series [Canada 2006]
Really lame comedy series about two stoner/drunks visiting wineries around the world; co-produced by & starring
Terry David Mulligan & Jason Priestley • bare credits at IMDb
"Hollywood & Vines" TV series [ABC-TV 2013?]
Announced 11/2012: Script orders given to writer-director Michael Tolkin and "Revenge" producers Marty Bowen & Wyck Godfrey; the Hollywood
murder-mystery series revolves around three sisters from a dynastic Hollywood family whose lives are thrown into panic mode when they each
discover how they’re connected to and affected by an A-list actress when her body is found lifeless in her pool • not yet listed at IMDb
"Hollywood At War: A Compilation of War Time Shorts"
video release [Hollywood Home Theater 1980]
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52-minute compilation feature film made from three propaganda shorts and more • feature credits at IMDb • content includes:
"The Spirit of '43" animated short [Disney 1943] • credits at IMDb
"The All-Star Bond Rally" short [Fox May 1945] • credits at IMDb
"Stamp Day For Superman" short [U.S. Treasury Dept. 1954] • credits at IMDb NOTE: the three cited shorts total 42 minutes; the remaining ten minutes appears to be archive footage of June Allyson, Ray Bolger, Jerry Colonna, Gloria DeHaven, Jimmy Durante, Benny Goodman, Kay Kyser, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ethel Merman & Dinah Shore; film clips courtesy of Bob DeFlores Library |
"Hollywood Canteen" [Warner bros. Dec 1944]
 | Two soldiers on sick leave visit the Hollywood Canteen three nights running before returning to the front. Written & directed by Delmer Daves; starring Dane Clark, Robert Hutton, Joan Leslie, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis & John Garfield; with cameos by The Andrews Sisters, Jack Benny, Humphrey Bogart, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Cantor, Kitty Carlisle, Jack Carson, Helmut Dantine, Faye Emerson, Sydney Greenstreet, Alan Hale, Paul Henreid, Peter Lorre, Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Eleanor Parker, Roy Rogers & Trigger, S.Z. Sakall, Zachary Scott, Alexis Smith, Barbara Stan-wyck, Jane Wyman, Jimmy Dorsey & Orchestra, Carmen Cavallaro & Orchestra, and The Sons of The Pioneers band full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia Warner Home Video b&w DVD [12/2008] for $34.95 M.G.M./Warner b&w VHS [9/98] for $24.99 available for much less on the 3-disk "Homefront Collection" DVD Box Set [2008] Warner Home Video b&w DVD set [11/2008] 3 disks for $15.81 |
"Hollywood Cavalcade" [Fox Oct 1939]
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Filmed in Technicolor and black & white; loosely based on the team of Mack Sennett {technical advisor here} & Mabel Normand. A movie director of the Silent Era brings a young actress from Broadway to Hollywood, where she becomes a star; although they love each other, she marries a co-star, so the director fires both actors, and his directing career declines • Directed by Irving Cummings & Malcolm St. Clair; starring Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Stuart Erwin & Donald Meek, with cameos by silent film actors Chick Chandler, Chester Conklin, Heinie Conklin, James Finlayson, Al Jolson, Buster Keaton, Hank Mann, 'Snub' Pollard, Jed Prouty, Rin-Tin-Tin, Mack Sennett & Ben Turpin
Fox b&w/color DVD [10/2008] for $11.01 full credits from IMDb |
"Hollywood Dreams" []
http://www.hollywooddreamsthemovie.com/ by Jaglom
"Hollywood Ending" [DreamWorks May 2002]
Written & directed by and starring Woody Allen; co-starring Téa Leoni, George Hamilton, Treat Williams, Debra Messing
& Mark Rydell • full credits from IMDb •
DreamWorks official moviesite •
movie entry at Wikipedia
"Hollywood Hotel" [Warner Bros./First National Dec 1937]
 | A saxophone player gets work at a movie studio; after his first night escorting a stand-in for a cranky star to a premiere, the two are fired; he gets work as a singing waiter, is discovered by a producer, and is hired as the singing voice of a major actor; when the actor is asked to sing on Louella Parsons's radio show, the maneuvering becomes intense . . . • Directed by Busby Berkeley; written by Jerry Wald, Maurice Leo & Richard Macaulay; starring Dick Powell, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Hugh Herbert, Ted Healy, Glenda Farrell, Johnnie Davis, Louella Parsons, Alan Mowbray, Mabel Todd, Frances Langford, Jerry Cooper, Ken Niles, Duane Thompson, Allyn Joslyn, Grant Mitchell, Edgar Kennedy, Fritz Feld, Perc Westmore, Eddie Acuff, Clinton Rosemond, William B. Davidson, Georgie Cooper, Libby Taylor, Joseph Romantini & Paul Irving, and featuring Raymond Paige & His Orchestra, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Sid Grauman, Lionel Hampton, Susan Hayward, Harry James, Gene Krupa, Carole Landis, Ronald Reagan
full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia Warner Home Video b&w DVD [9/2008] for $10.05 DVD extras include theatrical trailer and three shorts: "Double Talk" [1937] with Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy; "The Romance of Robert Burns" [1937]; and "Porky's Five & Ten" [1938] |
"Hollywood In Uniform" documentary short [Columbia Pictures Aug 1943]
Screen Snapshots Series 23, #1; 10-minute b&w short produced & directed by Ralph Staub; narrated by Art Baker; featuring Eddie Albert, Desi Arnaz, Gene Autry, Jackie Cooper, Glenn Ford, Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Alan Ladd, George Montgomery, Wayne Morris, John Payne, Tyrone Power, Ronald Reagan, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Robert Stack, James Stewart & Rudy Vallee; Oscar nomination for Best Short Subject; one print exists at U.C.L.A. F&TV Archive •
full credits at IMDb
"Hollywood Mystery" aka "Hollywood Hoodlum" [Regal Distributing June 1934]
53-minute b&w low-budget film; a movie studio P/R man dreams up a gimmick to make a gangster movie starring a real gangster . . . Produced by Fanchon Royer;
directed by B. Reeves Eason; starring June Clyde, Frank Albertson, José Crespo, Tenen Holtz, John Davidson, Stanley Price, Cyril Ring & Edith Terry Preuss
Alpha Video Double Feature b&w DVD [5/2005] for $5.98 {with "The Hat Box Mystery"}
full credits at IMDb •
watch full movie free online [cropped; 53:49] at YouTube
"Hollywood On Parade" [Criterion/Paramount 1932-34]
 | Paramount made a series of 25 shorts produced & directed by Louis Lewyn promoting their then-current stars and films, each running 5-10 minutes long; the shorts were released in theaters from Aug 1932 to July 1934 series entry at Wikipedia DVD is 82 minutes long; Amazon reviewer lists nine shorts: A-1, A-3, A-4, A-5, two numbered A-6, A-12, B-1, and B-5 Filmchest Archive Collection b&w DVD [9/2014] for $9.99 Synergy Ent. b&w DVD-R [11/2010] out of prodn/used |
"Hollywood On Parade" #A-1 [Aug 1932] with Fredric March /tt1076979/
"Hollywood On Parade" #A-2 [Sept 1932] with Stuart Erwin /tt1076981/
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"Hollywood On Parade #A-3" short film [Criterion/Paramount Oct 1932]
10-minute b&w docufilm; Eddie Kane goes on a tour of the Paramount studio backlot, popping in on the dressing rooms of movie stars of the time • Produced & directed by Louis Lewyn; hosted by Eddie Kane; featuring Dorothy & Roscoe Ates, Jackie Cooper, Bebe Daniels, Frankie Darro, Billie Dove, Jimmy Durante, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Helen Kane, Ben Lyon, Tom Mix, Anna May Wong, Bert Wheeler & Robert Woolsey credits at IMDb • 'Hollywood On Parade' entry at Wikipedia available on DVD with 8 other "Hollywood On Parade" short films as above |
"Hollywood On Parade" #A-4 [Nov 1932] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66RzUuxEO1c
"Hollywood On Parade" #A-5 [Dec 1932] with The Marx Brothers /tt1076983/
"Hollywood On Parade" first #A-6 [Jan 1933] /tt1029121/
with 'magician' Richard Arlen, Frances Dee, Tallulah Bankhead, Clark Gable & Buster Keaton
"Hollywood On Parade" second #A-6 [?] with flagpole-sitter Shipwreck Kelly, Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard,
Harold Lloyd, Charles Farrell, Johnny Weissmuller, Mary Pickford, Bing Crosby & Harry Langdon
"Hollywood On Parade" #A-7 [Feb 1933] with actor Mickey Daniels /tt1076982/
"Hollywood On Parade" #A-8 [March 1933] with actor Eddie Borden /tt0123105/
"Hollywood On Parade" #A-9 [April 1933] with art director Willy Pogany /tt0024133/
"Hollywood On Parade" #A-11 [1933] /tt0301412/
"Hollywood On Parade" #A-12 [1933] /tt1076980/
"Hollywood On Parade" #B-1
"Hollywood On Parade" #B-5 [Dec 1933] with comedian Lloyd Hamilton /tt1303864/
"Hollywood On Parade" #B-6 [Jan 1934] /tt1076985/
"Hollywood On Parade" #B-7 [Feb 1934] /tt1076986/
"Hollywood On Parade" 5½-minute short #B-8 [Criterion/Paramount March 1934]
The frame is teen actor Frankie Darro as a telegram delivery boy meeting George Bancroft, Charlie Chaplin, Constance
Cummings, Paulette Goddard, Cary Grant, Jean Harlow, Miriam Hopkins, Arline Judge, George Raft, many
others; produced & directed by Louis Lewyn • credits at IMDb •
view for free on YouTube [5:29]
"Hollywood On Parade" 5-minute short #B-9 [Criterion/Paramount March 1934]
The frame is a simple nightclub or party set; produced & directed by Louis Lewyn; stars include Jimmy Durante,
Florence Desmond, Ted Healy and The Three Stooges {Curly Howard, Moe Howard & Larry Fine), Ben Turpin,
many others •
credits at IMDb •
view for free online [4:59]
"Hollywood On Parade" #?? [1934] /tt0025265/
"Hollywood On Parade" #B-13 [July 1934] /tt1076984/
"Hollywood or Bust" [1956]
Directed by Frank Tashlin; starring Martin and Lewis & Anita Ekberg •
full credits at IMDb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_or_Bust
http://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Bust-VHS-Dean-Martin/dp/B000003KEU/
"Hollywood Party" comedy feature film [M.G.M. May 1934]
 | Comedy jungle hero Schnarzan (Durante) needs a boost so he is buying real man-eating lions for his next film; animal keepers Laurel & Hardy track the lions down because the man selling to Durante paid for the lions with a bounced check; meanwhile, Durante's competition wants to get the lions for their own films. The original release included a Technicolor Disney-animated short "Hot Choc'late Soldiers", introduced by Mickey Mouse; because Walt Disney licensed only theatrical distribution rights to M.G.M., the sequence was excluded from TV showings until Turner Movie Channel negotiated for TV & video rights with Disney Studios in 1992.
No director is credited; cinematography by James Wong Howe; starring Jimmy Durante, Laurel & Hardy, Jack Pearl, Lupe Velez, Charles Butterworth & Eddie Quillan; cameos by 'Wild Bill' Elliott, Ted Healy and The Three Stooges, Arthur Treacher, and Robert Young
Warner Archive b&w/color DVD [12/2011] for $17.99 M.G.M./Warner b&w/color VHS [1/93] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Hollywood Party" Technicolor short [M.G.M. April 1937]
 | Technicolor comedy sound short unseen for 60 years until the Vitaphone soundtrack disc was rediscovered in 2000; with hosts Charley 'Chan' Chase & Elissa Landi • Produced by Louis Lewyn, Howard Dietz & Harry Rapf; co-produced & directed by Roy Rowland; featuring Anna May Wong, Leon Errol, Al Lyons and His Coconut Grove Orchestra, singers The Jones Boys, singer Joe Morrison, Ahern Sisters, Marcus Show Girls, tap dancer Dr. Jack Goode, Leon Janney, tap dancer Sunnie O'Dea, singer Betty Jane Rhodes; and cameos by Joe E. Brown, Clark Gable, Freddie Bartholomew, Joan Bennett
full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia {empty} watch full movie [5/2020 upload; 20:50] online at YouTube |
"The Hollywood Revue of 1929" [M.G.M. June 1929]
 | Plotless two-hour sound musical review, partly filmed in Technicolor. • Directed by Charles Reisner; starring Conrad Nagel, Jack Benny, John Gilbert, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Bessie Love, Cliff Edwards (as Ukulele Ike), Laurel & Hardy, Anita Page, Nils Asther, Marion Davies, William Haines, Buster Keaton {dual role} & Marie Dressler; with cameos by Renée Adorée, Lionel Barrymore, the Brox Sisters, Ann Dvorak, the Biltmore Quartet & the Mawby Sisters; nominated for Best Picture Oscar
M.G.M. b&w/color DVD [2/2006] for $18.99 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Hollywood Runaround" sound short [Educational/Vanity/Fox 1932] /tt0023017/
"The Hollywood Sign" [2001]
Three actors whose careers are pretty much behind them (played by Tom Berenger, Rod Steiger, and Burt Reynolds) come up with a plan:
they're going to pose as detectives in an effort to steal $7 million from mobsters to finance their comeback.
'Hollywood Snapshots' [Hodkinson Films 1922]
Not listed on IMDb; anti-scandal promo film running about 13½ minutes; restored from unidentified footage discovered at the New Zealand Film Archive in 2010; character Hezekiah arrives on Hollywood Blvd. looking for scandal but finds then-famous actors playing with children & pets and going to church; sights include the Armstrong & Carleton Cafe, Hotel Hollywood, and Hollywood Legion Stadium; named actors include Viola Dana, Carter De Haven, Lloyd Hughes, Jack Kerrigan, Max Linder, Katherine McGuire, Owen Moore, Ramon Navarro, Pal the Dog, Milton Sills, Lewis Stone, Alice Terry & Rudolph Valentino, Vola Vale & Al Russell, and Valentino & Nazimova •
watch [14:01] online at N.F.P.F.
"Hollywood Steps Out" animated short [Looney Tunes May 1941]
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Groucho & Harpo and many other celebs dining & dancing at Ciro's Restaurant; caricatured celebs include Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Jerry Colonna, Bing Crosby, Henry Fonda, the Frankenstein Monster, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, Cary Grant, Oliver Hardy, ice skater Sonja Henie, J. Edgar Hoover, Kay Kyser, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre, Groucho & Harpo Marx, Tyrone Power, George Raft, Edward G. Robin-son, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Ann Sheridan, Ned Sparks, James Stewart, Leopold Stokowski, Lewis Stone, The Three Stooges, and Johnny Weissmuller, with sight gag cameos by Don Ameche, Mischa Auer, Wallace Beery, Claudette Colbert, Boris Karloff, Buster Keaton, William Powell, Norma Shearer, C. Aubrey Smith & Arthur Treacher • Produced by Leon Schlesinger; directed by Tex Avery; written by Melvin Millar; featuring voices of Dave Barry, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc & Kent Rogers
credits at IMDb • watch full cartoon [3/2016 upload; 8:11] online at YouTube |
"Hollywood Trip" [aired Feb 1953]
episode of the "My Little Margie" TV sitcom [1952-55]
 | Margie and Mrs. Odetts join Vern on a business trip to Hollywood; they stay at the Hotel Amador {portrayed by the Ambassador Hotel on Wishire}, scenes at the Rovan Pictures studios are at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City • Produced by Hal Roach Jr. & Guy V. Thayer Jr.; directed by Hal Yates; teleplay by George Carleton Brown & Frank Fox; starring Gale Storm, Charles Farrell, Gertrude Hoffman, Fritz Feld {as The Director}, Walter Woolf King, Larry Carr, Jim Bannon, John Close • there are several DVDs of "My Little Margie" but the ones that list episode titles do not include this one and the others do not list episode titles •
episode credits at IMDb
watch colorized episode [12/2020 upload; 22:11] online at YouTube |
"Hollywood Victory Caravan" [1942 & 1945]
The Hollywood Victory Caravan was a three-week cross-country railroad journey in 1942 that brought together two dozen film stars to raise money for the Army and Navy Relief Society; the show played in 12 cities and netted over $700,000. An all-star war bond show at Madison Square Garden on 10 March 1942, organized by Walter Winchell, partially inspired a nationwide tour by Hollywood stars. The Santa Fe Railroad donated the use of a special train that had up to 14 railroad cars, with facilities for rehearsals on board (two portable dance floors, two pianos, and ten musicians). Setting off from Los Angeles on 26 April 1942, the touring company traveled to Washington, DC where the stars went to a White House Tea Party at the invitation of
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, before opening their musical revue extravaganza that night; the total 'on stage' troupe for opening night consisted of 75 people.
After Washington, DC the tour visited Boston; Philadelphia; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri;
St. Paul & Minneapolis, Minnesota; Des Moines, Iowa; Dallas & Houston, Texas; with a final show in San Francisco on 19 May 1942.
Mark Sandrich was the show’s producer and Alfred Newman was the musical director; special music & lyrics were written for the show by Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, Frank Loesser, and Arthur Schwartz; stars included Desi Arnaz, Joan Bennett, Joan Blondell, Charles Boyer, James Cagney, Claudette Colbert, Jerry Colonna, Bing Crosby, Olivia de Havilland, Cary Grant, Charlotte Greenwood, Bob Hope, Frances Langford, Laurel & Hardy, Bert Lahr, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Ray Middleton, Merle Oberon, Pat O'Brien, Eleanor Powell, and Risë Stevens; seven starlets included Karin Booth, Alma Carroll, Frances Gifford, Elyse Knox, Marie McDonald, Fay McKenzie, Juanita Stark, and Arleen Whelan.
 | "A Star Spangled Show" on DVD [indep 2018] Original 10-minute Kodachrome 16mm footage of the live performance by the "Hollywood Victory Caravan" touring company in Philadelphia in May 1942; stars include Desi Arnaz, Joan Blondell, Joan Bennett, Charles Boyer, James Cagney (dancing to "Yankee Doodle Dandy"), Claudette Colbert, Jerry Colonna, Bing Crosby, Olivia de Havilland, Cary Grant, Charlotte Greenwood, Bob Hope, Bert Lahr, Frances Langford, Laurel & Hardy, Groucho Marx, Merle Oberon, Pat O'Brien, Eleanor Powell, Risë Stevens — and many more! DVD also includes: a short documentary by I. Joseph Hyatt about the Hollywood Victory Caravan based on his book {see below}; the 1945 short "Hollywood Victory Caravan" {see below}; "Prices Unlimited" with Leon Errol & Milburn Stone, an info-comedy about ration coupons on the Home Front; "My Little Margie" TV episode "Trip To Hollywood" with Gale Storm, Charles Farrell, Fritz Feld & Walter Wolf King DVD not sold on Amazon (2021); might still be available on eBay for US$19.95 + $2.89 s/h |
 | "Hollywood Victory Caravan: Tour With The Stars!" [2015] by I. Joseph Hyatt
Color Edition: CreateSpace 11x8½ pb [6/2015] for $14.53 First Edition: CreateSpace 11x8½ pb [6/2015] for $19.95 "Ultimate Hollywood Victory Caravan Scrapbook: A COLOR Pictorial History of America's Largest Bond Drive" [2013] by I. Joseph Hyatt
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At the end of World War II, the United States Department of the Treasury commissioned a short film from Paramount Pictures to promote the purchase of Victory Bonds;
the 19-minute short film was released in October 1945 and featured Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, as well as celebrities who were not on the original 1942 train tour.
"Hollywood Victory Caravan" propaganda film [Paramount Pictures Oct 1945]
 | A girl desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I., persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his railroad caravan {fictional story uses footage from the 1942 tour to promote selling Victory Bonds}. Produced by Paramount for the U.S. Department of The Treasury; directed by William D. Russell; written by Melville Shavelson; featuring Virginia Welles {as the ingenue}, Bing Crosby, Robert Benchley, Humphrey Bogart, orchestra leader Carmen Cavallaro, U.S. Maritime Service Training Station Choir, William Demarest, Dona Drake, Ted R. Gamble, Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, Alan Ladd, Diana Lynn, Noreen Nash, Franklin Pangborn, Olga San Juan, Barbara Stanwyck, Charles Victor, Marjorie Weaver • VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb watch full movie [10/2015 upload; 19:40] online at YouTube |
"Hollywoodland" [2006]
full credits from IMDb •
official movie site
"How To Make A Monster" [American Intl. Pictures July 1958]
 | "It Will Scare The Living Yell Out of You!" + "See The Ghastly Ghouls In Flaming Color!" • When a master monster make-up artist is fired by the new bosses of American International Studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.
Co-produced & co-written by Herman Cohen; directed by Herbert L. Strock; co-written by Aben Kandel/Kenneth Langtry; starring Robert H. Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway, Gary Clarke, Malcolm Atterbury, Dennis Cross, Morris Ankrum, Walter Reed, Paul Maxwell, Eddie Marr, Heather Ames, Robert Shayne, Rod Dana, Jacqueline Ebeier, Thomas Browne Henry, John Phillips, Paulene Myers, John Ashley single-film Region 1 DVD not available Lionsgate double feature DVD [8/00] for $29.99 with b&w "Blood of Dracula" [1957] full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailer [7/2009 upload; 1:56] online at YouTube watch full movie [11/2013 upload; 1:13:07] online at YouTube |
"Identification of A Woman" [1982] by Antonioni
"In A Lonely Place" [1950] /tt0042593/ starring Humphrey Bogart
"Inside Daisy Clover" [1965]
based on the 1963 novel by Gavin Lambert
"Iron Cowboy" aka 'Fade-In' TV movie [1968] /tt0062953/
starring Burt Reynolds and Barbara Loden
http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Cowboy-Reynolds-Barbara-Loden/dp/B000K9FCD6/
http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Cowboy-VHS-Burt-Reynolds/dp/B00005BGQD/
"It's A Great Feeling" [Warner Bros. Aug 1949]
A waitress at the Warner Bros. studio commissary gets her big break.
Directed by David Butler;
starring Dennis Morgan, Doris Day, Jack Carson, Bill Goodwin, Irving Bacon & Claire Carleton,
with cameos by dozens of stars of the time •
full credits from IMDb
"Jacquot de Nantes" [France 1991] /tt0102141/ by Agnès Varda & Jacques Demy
"Jiminy Glick In Lalawood" [May 2005]
"Laissez-Passer (Safe Conduct)" [France 2002] /tt0269461/
In occupied France, German-run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business ...
"Last Action Hero" [1993] /tt0107362/ starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
"The Last Movie" [1971] by Dennis Hopper
"The Last Producer" [2000] starring Burt Reynolds
Desperate to stay in the Hollywood game, an aging producer comes across a brilliant script that a younger executive has gotten, and will do whatever he can in order to obtain it.
"The Last Shot" [2004] = DVD 3/M5
"The Last Tycoon" [Paramount Nov 1976]
 | A studio mogul fights for art against the mercenary executives in control of the studio, while distracted by a young actress who is an exact double of his deceased wife. Directed by Elia Kazan; script by Harold Pinter; starring Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Nicholson, Donald Pleasence & Ray Milland
Paramount wudescreen color DVD [11/2003] for $9.98 Paramount color VHS [4/95] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
 | "The Love of The Last Tycoon: A Western" [1941 classic, rev 1993] by F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940]; edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli The classic unfinished novel about Hollywood. The version edited by Fitzgerald scholar Bruccoli restores the author's original intent. Said to be based on M.G.M. exec Irving Thalberg. Scribner 8x5¼ pb [4/95] for $8.80 Cambridge Univ Press 8¾x5¾ hardcover [12/93] out of print/used |
more details (synopsis, movies, stageplays, books & ebooks, links, merchandise) on
Spirit of America Bookstore's "The Last Tycoon" 1941/1993 Novel & Movies Page
"Lena's Holiday" [Germany Aug 1991]
 | After the fall of the Berlin Wall, an East German actress devises a very precise itinerary for a trip to Holly-wood, which goes completely awry when her luggage is switched at the L.A. airport for a suitcase full of contraband drugs. Co-written & directed by Michael Keusch; starring Felicity Waterman, Chris Lemmon, Nick Mancuso, Michael Sarrazin, Bill Dana, Liz Torres, Pat Morita, Susan Anton & Michael Gregory
Rhino Video widescreen color DVD [2/2002] out of prodn/used Prism color VHS [1995] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
"Let's Fall In Love" [1933] /tt0025381/
"Living In Oblivion" [1995] /tt0113677/
"Lost In Karastan"
[Arte Europe May 2015, Bulldog U.K. Jan 2016]
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Announced 3/2012: "Epic", the story of a washed-up British director who gets invited to make a national epic in an obscure (and fictitious) Caucasus Republic with Sir Ben Kingsley as the nation’s dictator, Christopher Lambert as the film’s crazed star, and Russian actress Chulpan Khamatova as the 'beauty and brains' in the movie-in-a-movie; to be produced by Ethan Hawke, directed by Pawel Pawlikowski; renamed film got made in Tbilisi, Georgia Republic but with different people: co-written & directed by Ben Hopkins; co-written by Pawel Pawlikowski; starring Matthew Macfadyen, Noah Taylor, MyAnna Buring, Ali Cook, Richard van Weyden, Ümit Ünal, María Fernández Ache, Leo Antadze, Lasha Ramishvili, Dato Velijanashvili, Amiran Katchibaia
Region 1 DVD not available • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 12/2015 official trailer [2:10] online at YouTube |
"The Lost Squadron" [R.K.O. Radio Pictures March 1932]
 | Stroheim agreed to portray a parody of himself as a German film director making a silent World War I movie who is essentially a homocidal maniac. The plot begins with aerial heroism by Yankee Army pilots in France who then come home to unfaithful girlfriends and unemployment. Several drift to Hollywood where their daredevil flying skills are in demand for movies about The Great War. Directed by George Archainbaud; screenplay by Wallace Smith, based on a story by Dick Grace; starring Richard Dix, Erich von Stroheim, Mary Astor, Robert Armstrong, Dorothy Jordan, Joel McCrea, Hugh Herbert & Ralph Ince
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
 | "The Lost Squadron" photoplay [1932] by Dick Grace Grosset & Dunlap hardcover [1932] out of print/used |
 | Uses double flashback design to tell the story of British portrait photographer William Friese-Greene [1855-1921], who was obsessed with inventing a practical motion picture camera, and later a method for color cinematography. Directed by John Boulting; script by Eric Ambler, based on Ray Allister's 1948 biography; Technicolor cinematography by Jack Cardiff; with an all-star cast including Robert Donat {as Friese-Greene}, Margaret Johnston, Maria Schell, Richard Attenborough, Frederick Valk, Eric Portman, Laurence Olivier, Stanley Holloway, Michael Hordern, Michael Redgrave, Margaret Rutherford & Peter Ustinov
Region 1 DVD or VHS not available; full credits at IMDb • movie entry at BFI |
"Mank" b&w feature film [Netflix Oct 2020] 
 | a film about "Citizen Kane" [1941] screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, written by director Fincher’s late father, Jack Fincher • Co-produced & directed by David Fincher; written years ago by Jack Fincher; music by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross; starring Amanda Seyfried {as Marion Davies}, Lily Collins {as Rita Alexander}, Gary Oldman {as Herman Mankiewicz}, Tuppence Middleton {as Sara Mankiewicz}, Tom Burke {as Orson Welles}, Tom Pelphrey {as Joseph Mankiewicz}, Charles Dance {as Wm. Randolph Hearst}, Leven Rambin, Arliss Howard {as Louis B. Mayer}, Jamie McShane, Toby Leonard Moore {as David O. Selznick}, Sam Troughton {as John Houseman}, Joseph Cross, Elvy (Yost), Adam Shapiro, Ferdinand Kingsley {as Irving Thalberg}, Paul Fox {as Josef von Sternberg}, Natalie Denise Sperl {as Greta Garbo}, Rick Pasqualone, Paul Carafotes, Christian Prentice, John Patrick Jordan, Anne Beyer, Cailan Robinson, John Lee Ames, Kingston Vernes, Amie Farrell {as Margaret Mayer}, Mark Fite, Randy Davison, Craig Robert Young {as Charlie Chaplin}, Jessie Cohen {as Norma Shearer Thalberg}, Jaclyn Bethany, Camille Montgomery & Isabel Dresden {as Carole Lombard}, Craig Welzbacher, Madison West, Cary Christopher, Flo Lawrence, Joanne Thomson, Sean Persaud, John Churchill {as Charles MacArthur}, Dana Lyn Baron, Stewart Skelton, Wylie Small, Allen Kepler, Christopher Bustos, Jenny Marie Mitchell, Ali Axelrad, Monika Gossmann, Benjamin Schnau, Tom Simmons, Kaytlin Borgen, Michelle Twarowska {as Joan Crawford}, Keith Barber, Tanner Stymeist, Shann Ihde, Emily Joy Lemus {as Billie Dove}, Lou George, Christian Roberts, Roslyn Cohn, Scarlet Cummings {as Bette Davis}, Benjamin Keller, Trevor Wooldridge {as Darryl F. Zanuck}, Jeff Harms {as Ben Hecht}, Jeff Hartley, Nick Job {as actor John Gilbert}, Mila Murashko, Larissa LaRenne, K.C. Schlossberg, Sean Michael McGrory, Desiree Louise {as Irene Mayer Selznick}, Kyle Langdon-Weyrich, Mark Deliman, Gary Teitelbaum, Sebastian Faure {as Clark Gable}, Jack Romano, Nicholas Leiting, Cooper Tomlinson, Malachi Rivers, Tyler Schweer, John Patrick Shulak, Glenn Edward, James Patrick Duffy, Eden Wattez, Derek Petropolis {as Eddie Cantor}, Alex Leontev, Brett Matthew Davidson, Marcus Marcelli, Matteo Menzies {as Frank Mankiewicz}, Zane Garcia, Luke Teerling, Francesco Capussela, Zachary Chicos, Julie Collis, Kenward Cooper, Sean Donnellan, Matt Freeman, Amy Goddard, Brendan Haines, Serena Hendrix, Jaden Hoff, Daniel Hoffman, Kyleigh Hoye, Rachel Karp, Steve Luchsinger, T. Wade Martin, Jordan Matlock, Marisa Mendelson, Arlo Mertz, Anthony Molinari, Gabriela Rae, Victoria Rafael, Waide Aaron Riddle, Mark Roman, Lucy Schmidt, Stephen Sherman, Christine Tucker, Sebastian Twohey-Jacobs, Adam Woldtvedt
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • |
"Maps To The Stars" [2014] /tt2172584/
Directed by David Cronenberg; written by Bruce Wagner
"Mary of The Movies" silent feature
[Columbia Pictures/Robertson-Cole/F.B.O. May 1923]
 | Partly filmed at Columbia's Sunset-Gower Studios; film considered lost until a partial print was found in New Zealand in 2010; girl from Iowa wants to be a famous actress; she gets a job as a waitress at the studio commissary, but the stars are not big tippers . . . • Co-written & produced by Louis Lewyn; directed by John McDermott; co-written by Joseph Farnham; starring {co-writer} Marion Mack, Florence Lee, Mary Kane, Harry Cornelli, John Geough, Raymond Cannon, Rosemary Cooper, Jack Perrin, Creighton Hale, Francis McDonald, John McDermott {as The Director}, Ray Hanford, Henry A. Barrows; with cameo appearances as themselves by then-stars David Butler, Marjorie Daw, Elliott Dexter, Louise Fazenda, Alec B. Francis, Wanda Hawley, Rex Ingram, J. Warren Kerrigan, Barbara La Marr, Edward LeSaint, Bessie Love, Douglas MacLean, Tom Moore, Carmel Myers, Zasu Pitts, Herbert Rawlinson, Anita Stewart, Estelle Taylor, Rosemary Theby, director Maurice Tourneur, Richard Travers, Johnnie Walker, Bryant Washburn, Anna May Wong, and many others
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Merton of The Movies" silent feature [1924] /tt0015131/
Directed by James Cruze; adapted by Walter Woods from the 1919 novel by Harry Leon Wilson and
the 1922 Broadway stageplay by Marc Connelly & George S. Kaufman
remake "Make Me A Star" [Paramount 1932] /tt0023175/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Me_a_Star
"Merton of The Movies" [NBC-TV May 1947] episode /tt1992836/ of the "Kraft Theatre" TV series
remake "Merton of The Movies" [M.G.M. Oct 1947] /tt0039619/ with Red Skelton
"Mooch Goes To Hollywood" video [1971]
 | A dog named Mooch comes to Hollywood and tries to make it in show business • Directed by Richard Erdman; written by Jim Backus & Jerry Devine; narrated by Zsa Zsa Gabor & Richard Burton; starring Higgins the Dog and featuring Vincent Price, James Darren, Jill St. John, Jim Backus, Lynne Lipton (voice of Mooch), James Harding, Marty Allen, Henny Backus, Phyllis Diller, Jay C. Flippen, Sam Jaffe, Rose Marie, Dick Martin, Darren McGavin, Edward G. Robinson, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney & David Wayne
Digiview color DVD [4/2004] for $9.73 Front Row Video color VHS [5/2001] for $4.35 Platinum Disc color VHS [4/99] for $4.95 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Mother Goose Goes Hollywood" animated short
[Silly Symphony Dec 1938]
 | caricatured celebs include: Fred Astaire, Freddie Bartholomew, Wallace Beery, Joe E. Brown, Judy Canova, Eddie Cantor, Donald Duck, Stepin Fetchit, W.C. Fields, Clark GableGreta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn, Hugh Herbert, Charles Laughton, Laurel & Hardy, three Marx Brothers, Charlie McCarthy, Joe Penner, Martha Raye, Edward G. Robinson, Ned Sparks, Spencer Tracy, Fats Waller & Mae West (NOTE: 1930s racist attitudes are evident, but quite mild) Produced by Walt Disney; directed by Wilfred Jackson; written by Vernon Stallings; animators include Ferdinand Horvath, Ward Kimball, Isadore Klein & Grim Natwick; featuring voices of Al Bernie, Thelma Boardman, Ann Lee, Dave Weber, Dave Barry, Sara Berner, Clarence Nash, Danny Webb & The Four Blackbirds credits at IMDb • watch full cartoon with Dutch subtitles [11/2006 upload; 7:32] online at YouTube |
"Mother Goose In Swingtime" animated short
[Columbia Pictures Color Rhapsody Cartoon Dec 1939]
 | caricatured celebs include: Fred Astaire, Wallace Beery, Jack Benny, Joe E. Brown, Bing Crosby, Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald, W.C. Fields, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, three Marx Bro-thers, Martha Raye, Edward G. Robinson, Ginger Rogers, Mickey Rooney, Baby Snooks & Leopold Stokowski (NOTE: 1930s racist attitudes are evident, but quite mild) • Produced by Charles Mintz; directed by Manny Gould; written by Allen Rose; featuring voices of Elvia Allman, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc & Dave Weber
credits at IMDb • watch full cartoon [9/2012 upload; 6:20] online at YouTube |
"Movie Crazy" [1932]
Harold Lloyd's most successful sound film
"Movieland" [Lupino Lane/Educational Nov 1926] /tt0121572/
written & directed by Norman Taurog, starring Lupino Lane
available on the "Silent Comedy Classics Collection, Volume 2" DVD [2013] with 4 other silent shorts
Alpha Video b&w silent DVD [8/2013] for $5.44
"The Muppet Movie" [Henson/A.F.D. June 1979]
 | A frog, a bear, and a pig head for Hollywood, while trying to elude a greedy fast-food magnate. On their way to fame & fortune, the characters get an agent, meet with a studio bigwig (Welles), and confront other dangers. Created by Jim Henson & Frank Oz; directed by James Frawley; starring Kermit The Frog, Fozzie Bear, The Great Gonzo, Miss Piggy, Rowlf the Dog, Charles Durning, Steve Martin, Orson Welles, Carol Kane, Milton Berle, Mel Brooks, James Coburn & Dom DeLuise, with cameos by Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, Big Bird, and Bob Hope; listed on National Film Registry, 2009
Disney 50th Anniv Edition color DVD [11/2005] for $14.99 Disney color VHS [3/93] out of prodn/many used 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99 27"x40" poster from Amazon for $19.99 full credits from IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"The Muppets Go Hollywood" (1979)
cameo by Steve Allen
"Murder At The Cannes Film Festival" TV movie [2000] /tt0245301/
"Newsfront" [Roadshow Ent. Australia July 1978, USA May 1979]
 | The employees of Cinetone News scramble to distant parts of post-war Australia to produce content for the weekly newsreels shown to the dwindling interest of the movie-going public • Filmed in New South Wales, Australia; co-written & directed by Peter Weir; starring Bill Hunter, Wendy Hughes, Gerard Kennedy, Chris Haywood, John Ewart, Don Crosby, Angela Punch McGregor, John Clayton, John Dease, Bryan Brown & Lorna Lesley, with archive footage of Chico Marx, The Beatles, Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay, Lyndon B. John-son, and Richard & Pat Nixon; won 8 Australian Film Institute Awards, including Best Film & Best Director
Blue Underground widescreen color DVD [11/2005] for $5.73 with many extras full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Newsfront" novelization [1978] by Robert Macklin Sun Books mass pb [1978] out of print/scarce |
"Nickelodeon" [1976]
full credits from IMDb
"Not Another Not Another Movie" [2011]
Burt Reynolds plays a filmmaker with a studio that's struggling to stay alive who is willing to do pretty much anything to get a hit.
"Not Another Tolkien Movie" [indep May 2004]
 | 88-minute movie-within-a-movie docu-comedy; young filmmaker attempts to make an accurate adaptation of "Lord of The Rings" with the help of an infomercial producer which soon involves soap opera actors, hand models, Ukrainian pop-stars, a Hip-Hop Hobbit, and awkward product placement, culminating with the movie's hurried premiere at the Mid-Atlantic Film Festival. • Co-written & directed by and starring Dallas Shelby; co-written by & starring Brock Fanning
Pasquinade Films color DVD-R [12/2006] for $15.00 full credits at IMDb • filmmakers' official website, based in Maryland |
"Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" [Sony/Columbia Pictures for July 2019 release?]
  | Starring Brad Pitt & Leonardo DiCaprio as a TV actor well past his glory and his stunt double; the story involves Charles Manson and the 'helter skelter' killings of 1969; filming locations include Corriganville Ranch, Musso & Frank's, El Coyote, and the Playboy Mansion • Co-produced, written & directed by Quentin Tarantino; other actors include Luke Perry (his last film), Margot Robbie {as Sharon Tate}, Dakota Fanning {as Squeaky Fromme}, Al Pacino, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Olyphant, Rumer Willis, Scoot McNairy, Kurt Russell, Damon Herriman {as Charles Manson}, Bruce Dern {as George Spahn}, Clu Gulager, Brenda Vaccaro, Michael Madsen, James Marsden, Tim Roth, Emile Hirsch, Damian Lewis, Victoria Pedretti, Austin Butler, Sydney Sweeney, Mikey Madison, James Remar, Lorenza Izzo, Lena Dunham, Clifton Collins Jr., Zoë Bell, Leslie Bega, Dreama Walker, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Spencer Garrett, Martin Kove, Danny Strong, Maya Hawke, Harley Quinn Smith, Costa Ronin, Samantha Robinson, Maurice Compte, Madisen Beaty, Nichole Galicia, Nicholas Hammond, Julia Butters, Daniella Pick, Lew Temple, Veronika Mindal, Inbal Amirav, Monica Staggs, Penelope Kapudija, Natalie Cohen, Kansas Bowling, Marco Rodríguez, James Landry Hébert, Mike Moh {as Bruce Lee}, Omar Doom, Lucia Oskerova, Kerry Westcott, Ramón Franco, Rafal Zawierucha {as Roman Polanski}, Dallas Chandler, Suzanne LaChasse, Lisa Dee, Alina Zilbershmidt, Craig Stark, Elisabeth Ferrara, Courtney M. Moore, Brianna Joy Chomer, David Steen, Eddie Perez, Parker Love Bowling, Rachael Wother-spoon, Alfredo Tavares, Mark Krenik, Rachel Redleaf, Aundrea Smith, Bridie Latona, Keith Jefferson, Lisa Y. Sheeler, India Everett, Gabriela Flores, Emilee Bickert, Dallas Jay Hunter, Nicholas Walker, George Thomas Mansel, Juliette Kida, Julyah Rose, Breanna Wing, Sarah May Sommers/Wald, Jennifer Churchich, Hayley Malia Johnson, Michael Graham, Brian Patrick Butler, Alicia Karami, Sheila M. Lockhart, William Pierce, John Luder, C. Ronald McPherson, Michael McHugh, Chad Ridgely, Jason Catron, Bruce Del Castillo, Kasey Landoll, Daniel Callister, James T. Schlegel, Gilbert Saldivar, Karmen Khan, Christopher Hunt, Hal Dion, Edward Headington, Zander Grable, JLouis Mills, Nas Mehdi, Victoria Truscott, Michael Thomas Cox, Miguel Fasa, Tom Hartig, Miranda Dos Santos, Don Pecchia, Zack Whyel, David M. Edelstien, R.J. Asher, Hunter Jones, Dave Silva, Mayra-Alejandra Garcia, Richard Allan Jones, Sean Baker, Raul Cardona, Chris Scagos, Rage Stewart, Alexander Tassopoulos, Kenneth Sonny Donato, Dyani Del Castillo, David Wieler, Tom David, David Delagarza, John Rabe, Eddie J. Rangel, María Birta, Caitlin Herst (Burt Reynolds was cast as George Spahn, but Burt died before filming his scenes)
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb |
"The Party" [] Blake Edwards & Peter Sellers
"The Perils of Pauline" [Paramount July 1947]
 | This feature film is now public domain; romanticized account of seamstress Pearl White's discovery and rapid rise to silent serial stardom • Directed by George Marshall; starring Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy De Wolfe. William Demarest, Constance Collier & Frank Faylen, with silent movie stalwarts William Farnum, Chester Conklin, Paul Panzer, 'Snub' Pollard, Creighton Hale & James Finlayson
ROAN Technicolor DVD [2/2000] for $17.99 Bridgestone Multimedia color VHS [5/98] out of prodn/used Madacy color VHS [9/97] out of prodn/used Madacy color VHS [undated] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
"The Player" [Avenue/Spelling April 1992]
 | A screenwriter is blackmailing a movie studio executive . . . Directed by Robert Altman [1925-2006]; novel & script by Michael Tolkin; starring Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher, Dean Stockwell, Sydney Pollack & Lyle Lovett; many cameos include Steve Allen, Harry Belafonte, Karen Black, Gary Busey, Robert Carradine, Charles Champlin, Cher, James Coburn, John Cusack, Paul Dooley, Peter Falk, Louise Fletcher, Teri Garr, Scott Glenn, Jeff Goldblum, Elliott Gould, Joel Grey, Buck Henry, Anjelica Huston, Sally Kellerman, Jack Lemmon, Andie MacDowell, Malcolm McDowell, Jayne Meadows, Martin Mull, Nick Nolte, Bert Remsen, Burt Reynolds, Julia Roberts, Alan Rudolph, Jill St. John, Susan Sarandon, Rod Steiger, Lily Tomlin, Robert Wagner, Ray Walston & Bruce Willis; 3 Oscar noms, won 2 BAFTA, won 2 at Cannes, won WGA Best Script/Adaptation
New Line Special Edition widescreen color DVD [7/97] for $14.49 New Line color VHS [6/2002] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99 |
 | "The Player" [1988 novel] by Michael Tolkin
Grove Press 8¼x5½ pb [4/97] for $9.60 Atlantic Monthly Press hardcover [6/88] out of print/used Random House ABR audio [5/93] out of prodn/used "The Return of The Player" [2006 sequel] by Michael Tolkin Grove Press 8x5¼ pb [7/2007] for $10.40 Grove Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [8/2006] for $4.80 [sic] |
"The Portuguese Nun" [2010]
"The Purple Rose of Cairo"
[Orion Pictures March 1985]
 | A Depression-era waitress goes to the movies for escape, and discovers that the hero of the movie has walked off the screen to escape into the real world • Written & directed by Woody Allen; starring Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Gil Shepherd, Danny Aiello, Dianne Wiest & Edward Herrmann; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (5/2005)
MGM/UA widescreen DVD [11/2001] for $17.98 Anchor bay color VHS [9/90] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
"RastaFEARian" [Darius Films 2012?]
Announced 9/2012: Canadian sales agent 108 Media has picked up the world distribution rights; independent film
about an out-of-control film producer sparing no one to get his project off the ground; directed by Sarah Lohman,
starring Christian Slater • not yet listed at IMDb
"R.K.O. 281" tv movie [HBO/WGBH airdate Nov 1999]
 | The title is the production number for the filming of "Citizen Kane", released in December 1941. After Wm. Randolph Hearst learned that Orson Welles was making a feature film that was a thinly-disguised and unflattering look at Hearst's life, the publishing tycoon and presidential hopeful used his power and influence to bury the picture. Directed by Benjamin Ross; starring Liev Schreiber {as Welles}, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich & Roy Scheider; nominated for 13 Emmy Awards, including Best TV Movie, Best Direction & Best Script, won 3 minor Emmies; tied for WGA Award for Best TV Script
H.B.O. Home Video color DVD [4/2000] for $12.99 H.B.O. Home Video color VHS [3/2001] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
"Road To Nowhere" [Monterey Media June 2011]
 | A filmmaker creating a movie based on an unsolved true crime gets mixed up in the old murder case and in the ongoing search for the criminals and a missing fortune. Co-produced & written by Steven Gaydos; directed by Monte Hellman; starring Cliff De Young, Tygh Runyan, Shannyn Sossamon, Waylon Payne, Dominique Swain & Rob Kolar DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb official movie site • watch official trailer on YouTube |
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