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full credits from IMDb
"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
poster {at left} available in two sizes at AllPosters.com DVD/Blu-ray not available; b&w VHS [8/00] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia |
"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 (Matiθre Grise)" [Rwanda 2010, USA 2012?] 
Co-produced, written & directed by Kivu Ruhorahoza /tt1890465/
"Hollywood" [Paramount Aug 1923 silent]
video/DVD not available (prints/negatives presumed lost) full credits from IMDb |
"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 Stanwyck, Jane Wyman, Jimmy Dorsey & Orchestra, Carmen Cavallaro & Orchestra, and The Sons of The Pioneers band 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 full credits at IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia |
"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} & 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 costar, 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 silnet 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 $13.49 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 Tιa Leoni, George
Hamilton, Treat Williams, Debra Messing & Mark Rydell;
full credits from IMDb
DreamWorks official moviesite {requires Flash}
"Hollywood Hotel" [1937]
Directed by Busby Berkeley [CD but not video] /title/tt0029010/
"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 On Parade" [Criterion/Paramount 1932-34]
Paramount made a series of 25 shorts promoting their then-current stars and films, each running
roughly 5 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 (as below): A-1, A-3, A-4, A-5, two numbered A-6, A-12, B-1, and B-5 Synergy Ent. 82-minute b&w DVD-R [11/2010] for $9.99 |
"Hollywood On Parade" #A-1 [Aug 1932] with Fredric March /tt1076979/
"Hollywood On Parade" #A-2 [Sept 1932] with Stuart Erwin /tt1076981/
"Hollywood On Parade" #A-3 [Oct 1932] with actor Eddie Kane /tt0023020/
"Hollywood On Parade" #A-4
"Hollywood On Parade" #A-5 [Dec 1932] with The Marx Brothers /tt1076983/
"Hollywood On Parade" #A-6 [Jan 1933] /tt1029121/
with Richard Arlen, Tallulah Bankhead, Clark Gable & Buster Keaton
"Hollywood On Parade" second #A-6 ? with Shipwreck Kelly, 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" [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 & 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" short [M.G.M. April 1937]
Technicolor sound comedy short unseen for 60 years until the Vitaphone soundtrack disc was rediscovered in 2000; directed by Roy Rowland; written by John W. Krafft; starring Elissa Landi, Charley Chase {as Asian Charley Chan Chase}, Joe Morrison, Leon Errol; cameos include
Clark Gable, Joan Bennett, Joe E. Brown, Freddie Bartholomew, Sunnie O'Dea & Anna May Wong, with Al Lyons & his band
DVD/Blu-ray not available full credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia {empty}
"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 Renιe Adorιe, 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 |
"Hollywoodland" [2006]
full credits from IMDb
official movie site
"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
"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
"Jiminy Glick In Lalawood" [May 2005]
"Last Action Hero" [1993] /tt0107362/ starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
"The Last Movie" [1971] by Dennis Hopper
"The Last Shot" [2004] = DVD 3/M5
"The Last Tycoon" [Paramount Nov 1976]
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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 11"x17" movie poster available at AllPosters.com |
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"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 |
"Living In Oblivion" [1995] /tt0113677/
"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 12"x16" poster available for $19.99 at AllPosters.com 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 |
"The Magic Box" [Festival of Film 1951, U.K. & USA 1952]
 | 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 |
"Merton of The Movies" [MGM 1947] with Red Skelton
"Movie Crazy" [1932]
Harold Lloyd's most successful sound film
"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, Steve Martin 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
"Newsfront" by Peter Weir /title/tt0077986/
"Nickelodeon" [1976]
full credits from IMDb
"The Party" [] Blake Edwards & Peter Sellers
"The Perils of Pauline"
[Paramount July 1947]
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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 stock/used full credits from 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; won WGA Award for Best TV Script (tied)
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 |
"Show People" [Cosmopolitan/M.G.M. Nov 1928] /tt0019379/
'backstage-in-Hollywood' saga directed by King Vidor, starring Marion Davies & William Haines
"Shrink" [indep July 2009]
 | "The doctor is out!" Unable to cope with personal problems, L.A.'s top celebrity psychiatrist seeks solace in drugs, then is assigned a pro bono case of a troubled teenage girl living far from the Hollywood Hills. Co-produced by & starring Kevin Spacey; directed by Jonas Pate; written by Thomas Moffett; also starring Mark Webber, Saffron Burrows, Jack Huston, Keke Palmer, Dallas Roberts, Robert Loggia, Pell James & Laura Ramsey DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits from IMDb official movie site |
"Silent Movie" [1976]
full credits from IMDb |
"Silver Bullets" [2011] /tt1865503/
low-budget horror film about the making of a low-budget horror film; directed by Joe Swanberg
"Singin' In The Rain" []
full credits from IMDb
"So You Want To Be In Pictures" [Warner Bros. / Vitaphone June 1947]
11-minute comedy short written & directed by Richard L. Bare; narrated by Art Gilmore; starring
George O'Hanlon as Joe McDoakes; cameos by Wayne Morris, Janis Paige, 'Ronnie' Reagan,
Alexis Smith & Martha Vickers; Oscar nom for Best Short Subject
full credits at IMDb
"Stand-In" [1937]
full credits from IMDb
"The Star" [1952]
full credits from IMDb
"Star Spangled Rhythm" [Dec 1943]
Stars Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Fred MacMurray, Franchot Tone, Ray Milland
"State & Main" satire [Dec 2000] wr/dir David Mamet
"The Stunt Man" [1980]
full credits from IMDb
"Sullivan's Travels" [Paramount Dec 1941]
 | A successful director of lightweight popular films decides that he wants to make a serious movie about people affected by The Great Depression. When his producers counter that he knows nothing about such lives, the director goes on the road as a hobo.
Co-produced, written & directed by Preston Sturges [1898-1959]; starring Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Porter Hall, Byron Foulger, Margaret Hayes, Robert Greig, Roscoe Ates & Eric Blore; listed on National Film Registry (1990)
Criterion b&w DVD [8/2001] for $35.99 Universal b&w VHS [3/92] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb |
"Sunset" [TriStar April 1988]
 | While working on a movie as technical advisor, real-life lawman Wyatt Earp teams with cowboy star Tom Mix to solve a murder at the Academy Awards ceremony in Beverly Hills. Co-written & directed by Blake Edwards, from a story by Rod Amateau; starring Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway, Kathleen Quinlan, Jennifer Edwards, Patricia Hodge, Richard Bradford, M. Emmet Walsh, Joe Dallesandro, Andreas Katsulas, Dann Florek, Bill Marcus, Michael C. Gwynne & Dermot Mulroney Sony widescreen color DVD [8/98] for $12.49 Sony color VHS [6/97] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb |
Magic Lantern's
"Sunset Blvd." 1950 Movie Page
"Susan Slept Here" [1954]
Comedy set in Hollywood at Christmastime, narrated by an Oscar® statuette; directed by Frank Tashlin;
starring Dick Powell, Anne Francis & Debbie Reynolds
full credits from IMDb
http://www.amazon.com/Susan-Slept-Here-Remaster-Francis/dp/B004CLYJEG/
http://www.amazon.com/Susan-Slept-Here-Remastered-Powell/dp/B004CTMHTW/
"Tales From The Hollywood Hills"
TV mini-series [P.B.S./Channel 4 1987-88]
"Natica Jackson" [Nov 1987]
Directed by Paul Bogart; teleplay by Andy Wolk, based on a story by John O'Hara; starring Michelle
Pfeiffer, Hector Elizondo, George Murdock & Brian Kerwin; won W.G.A. Award
full credits at IMDb
"Pat Hobby Teamed With Genius" [1987]
Written & directed by Rob Thompson, based on stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940]; starring
Christopher Lloyd, Colin Firth, Joseph Campanella & Kevin Bash
full credits at IMDb
"A Table at Ciro's" [1987]
Directed by Leon Ichaso; co-written by Budd Schulberg & Stanley H. Silverman; starring Darren McGavin, Lois
Chiles, Kenneth McMillan, Stella Stevens, Steven Bauer, Sherilyn Fenn & Ann Magnuson
full credits at IMDb
"The Old Reliable" [1988]
Directed by Michael Blakemore; adapted by Mark Eden from a novel by P.G. Wodehouse;
starring Rosemary Harris, Lori Loughlin, Joseph Maher & Lynn Redgrave
full credits at IMDb
"The Closed Set" [Nov 1988]
Directed by Mollie Miller; teleplay by Ellen M. Violett, based on a 1959 Gavin Lambert short story;
starring Rita Moreno, D.W. Moffett, Harold Gould & Penelope Ann Miller
full credits at IMDb
"Golden Land" [1988]
teleplay by William Hanley, based on the 1935 short story by William Faulkner [1897-1962]
full credits at IMDb
"365 Nights In Hollywood" [1934] /tt0024808/
"Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie"
[Magnolia Pictures 2012? release] /tt1855401/
Co-written by & starring Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim; co-starring Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Will Forte,
Jeff Goldblum, John C. Reilly, Robert Loggia & William Atherton; the plot will follow Tim & Eric as
they 'biff a big Hollywood movie deal' and become businessmen in a semi-abandoned shopping mall.
"Tropic Thunder" [DreamWorks Aug 2008]
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"A very subtle satire [of Hollywood] wrapped in a very broad comedy." – Devin O'Leary, Weekly Alibi film critic
The hapless director of an over-budget jungle war epic decides to submit his actors to boot camp in Southeast Asia, which morphs into real combat with real rebels and real ammo.
Co-produced, co-written, directed by & starring Ben Stiller; co-written by Justin Theroux & Etan Cohen; co-starring Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Brandon T. Jackson, Jay Baruchel, Steve Coogan, Danny R. McBride, Nick Nolte & Tom Cruise
DreamWorks Video widescreen color DVD [11/2008] for $14.49 DreamWorks widescreen color Unrated Director's Cut DVD [11/2008] 2 disks for $24.49 full credits from IMDb official movie site {requires Flash} |
"Under The Rainbow"
[Warner Bros./Orion Pictures July 1981]
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The German Fόhrer sends a midget secret agent to Culver City, California to meet with a Japanese spy. The meeting turns out to be the same weekend that The Culver Hotel [est. 1924] receives 150 'little people' working as Munchkins on the movie "The Wizard of Oz", a busload of Japanese tourists, and a paranoid Duke and his bumbling Secret Service escort. {Reviewed as awful but hilarious.}
Directed by Steve Rash; starring Chevy Chase, Carrie Fisher, Eve Arden, Joseph Maher, Robert Donner, Billy Barty, Mako, Cork Hubbert, Pat McCormick, Adam Arkin, Richard Stahl, Freeman King, Zelda Rubinstein & Jerry Maren
Warner Home Video widescreen color DVD [undated] out of prodn/used Warner Home Video color VHS [4/92] out of prodn/used 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $14.99 full credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia |
"What Just Happened"
[2929 & Magnolia Pictures Oct 2008]
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A middle-aged Hollywood producer is in over his head trying to balance two ex-wives, the iron-gloved studio chief, the drug-addled director of his new film, his teenage daughter, Bruce Willis (sporting a beard), and assorted agents & screen writers – under a two-week deadline to deliver a finished print of the movie to the Cannes Festival in France.
Directed by Barry Levinson; co-produced & written by Art Linson, based on his 2002 book; co-produced by & starring Robert De Niro; also starring Catherine Keener, Robin Wright Penn, Sean Penn, Lily Rabe, Kristen Stewart, Stanley Tucci, John Turturro, Bruce Willis & Michael Wincott
Magnolia widescreen color Blu-ray [2/2009] for $15.99 Magnolia widescreen color DVD [2/2009] for $14.98 full credits from IMDb official movie site |
 | "What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales From The Front Line" [2002] by Art Linson "...you may have missed [this book] when it came out last year. Now it's in paperback. Don't make the same mistake twice." — Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review Grove Press 8x5½ movie tie-in pb [10/2008] for $11.20 Bloomsbury USA 8x5 pb [5/2003] out of print/used Bloomsbury USA 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2002] out of print/used |
"What Price Hollywood?" [R.K.O. Pathι June 1932]
 | A waitress at the Brown Derby restaurant befriends a seldom-sober director and is soon in the big-time; she snags a millionaire socialite but he soon tires of the Hollywood lifestyle and of playing second fiddle to a star. Filming locations included the Hollywood Brown Derby, Grauman's Chinese theater, and Hollywood Blvd.
Exec produced by David O. Selznick; directed by George Cukor; based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns; music by Max Steiner; starring Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton, Gregory Ratoff, Brooks Benedict, Louise Beavers, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, King Baggot & Heinie Conklin; Oscar nomination for Best Original Story DVD/Blu-ray not available Warner Home Video b&w VHS [1/91] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia scrrenplay in book form [1981] Continuum Intl. 8x5½ pb [10/84] out of print/used |
"White Hunter, Black Heart"
[Malpaso/Warner Bros. May & Sept 1990]
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A world-famous movie director on location in Africa neglects the production of his movie for an obsession with hunting and killing one particular elephant. The main character is modeled after John Huston, the movie being filmed is "The African Queen" [1951], the movie stars are Humphrey Bogart & Kate Hepburn.
Co-produced & directed by & starring Clint Eastwood; co-written by Peter Viertel, based on his novel; co-written by James Bridges & Burt Kennedy; also starring Jeff Fahey, Charlotte Cornwell, Norman Lumsden, George Dzundza, Marisa Berenson, Richard Vanstone, Jamie Koss & Mel Martin
Warner Home Video widescreen color DVD [9/2003] for $17.99 Warner Home Video color VHS [6/99] out of prodn/used 27"x40" poster from Amazon for $19.99 full credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia |
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"White Hunter, Black Heart" novel [Doubleday 1953] by Peter Viertel Penguin mass pb [8/90] out of print/used Laurel mass pb [8/87] out of print/used see also Magic Lantern's "The African Queen" 1951 Movie Page |
"The Wild Party"
[Merchant-Ivory Prodns/A.I.P. March 1975]
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Jolly Grimm, fading star of the Silent Era, stages a drunken bash in hopes of getting distribution for his final silent movie; but the film is a dud and the guests at his mansion feed on the grim mood and the free liquor, and the sexual hijinks get out of hand. When Jolly sees his mistress and a younger actor enter an upstairs bedroom, he gets a gun and waits for them outside the room. {Director Ivory disowned the film released by A.I.P., which was cut from 108 to 95 minutes; the DVD contains the Director's Cut and a 20-minute documentary.} Directed by James Ivory; written by Walter Marks, based on the 1928 narrative poem by Joseph Moncure March {which was perhaps inspired by the troubles of comedian Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle [1887-1933]}; starring James Coco, Raquel Welch, Perry King, Tiffany Bolling, Royal Dano, David Dukes, Christina Ferra-Gilmore & Eddie Lawrence
M.G.M. Video widescreen color DVD [6/2004] for $13.49 full credits at IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Without Reservations" [R.K.O. 1946]
The female author of a novel in a similar tone as Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" meets a tough-guy actor on a train
bound for Hollywood where her novel is to be made into a movie; she actively pursues him for the lead role,
though he's read the novel and openly mocks it as ridiculous nonsense.
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy; starring John Wayne & Claudette Colbert;
full credits at IMDb
"The Woman Chaser" [1999]
"Won Ton Ton, The Dog Who Saved Hollywood" [Paramount May 1976]
 | Spoof of the days when the top box office star in Hollywood was a dog, i.e. Rin Tin Tin. Co-produced & directed by Michael Winner; music by Neal Hefti; starring Madeline Kahn, Bruce Dern, Art Carney, Phil Silvers, Teri Garr & Ron Leibman; with cameos by an impressive cast of old movie stars, supporting actors, bit players, and celebrities, including Stepin Fetchit, Rudy Vallee, George Jessel, Ann Rutherford, Andy Devine, Huntz Hall, Doodles Weaver, William Demarest, Dorothy Lamour, Johnny Weissmuller, Mike Mazurki & Peter Lawford Legend Films widescreen color DVD [7/2008] for $7.42 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $6.29 27"x40" poster from Amazon for $9.99 full credits at IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia novelization [1976] by E.M. Corder Pocket Books movie tie-in mass pb [4/76] out of print/used |
"You Are All Captains" [Spain 2010]
Written & directed by and starring Oliver Laxe; won FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes Film Festival
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb official movie site
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