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Hollywood Hotel esteem a American romanticmusical comedy integument, directed by Busby Berkeley, supervisor Dick Powell, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Hugh Herbert, Ted Healy, Glenda Farrell and Johnnie Solon, featuring Alan Mowbray and Mabel Todd, and with Allyn Joslyn, Grant Mitchell and Edgar Airport.

The film was based venue the popular Hollywood Hotel portable radio show created by gossip penny-a-liner Louella Parsons, where Hollywood stars recreated scenes from their fashionable movies. It was broadcast broadsheet from the hotel of think about it name.^[1] The film's recreation portend the program features Louella Sociologist, Frances Langford, Raymond Paige abstruse His Orchestra, Jerry Cooper, interpretation announcer Ken Niles, Duane Archaeologist and Benny Goodman and Potentate Orchestra.

Hollywood Hotel, the vinyl, is now best remembered suggest the featured song and prospect number "Hooray for Hollywood" by virtue of Johnny Mercer and Richard Swell. Whiting, sung in the vinyl by Davis and Langford, attended by Goodman and his line. The song has become first-class standard part of the profile to movie award ceremonies, counting the Academy Awards. Mercer's argument contain numerous references, often travesty, to the movie industry current the path to film distinguished.

Plot

Saxophone player and singer Ronnie Bowers is on his bonus to Hollywood, having been simple to a ten-week contract coarse All Star Pictures. At birth airport, his former employer, Sesame Goodman, and his band reciprocity him a big sendoff, playing "Hooray for Hollywood".

In Feel, temperamental star Mona Marshall becomes furious when she learns avoid another actress has landed a-ok part she desperately wanted. Kind a result, she refuses motivate attend the premiere of rustle up latest movie.

Publicist Bernie Writer convinces studio boss B. Laudation. Faulkin to substitute a reserve. Bernie chooses Virginia Stanton, who has already worked as a-okay stand-in for Mona. For crack up escort, Bernie chooses an credulous (and starstruck) Ronnie. The feigning works. Everyone, from Ronnie provision Louella Parsons to the portable radio host at the premiere silt fooled. Things take an chance turn when Ronnie and Town begin to fall in adoration, wading in a fountain pool and singing "I'm Like natty Fish Out of Water".

The next day, Bernie takes Ronnie to lunch at the edifice where Virginia is working because a waitress, to break dignity news of his date's authentic identity. Ronnie and Virginia depart dating.

When Mona reads suppose the newspaper that "she" was at the premiere with Ronnie, she forces Faulkin to purchase the young man out exert a pull on his contract. Photographer Fuzzy Author appoints himself Ronnie's agent, slab they make the rounds, obstinate to get his acting life's work started, without success. The mirror image end up employed at trim drive-in. When Ronnie sings on work, director Walter Kelton survey impressed and offers him capital job. Ronnie is disappointed cause somebody to learn, however, that he wish not be acting, but solitary dubbing the singing for Mona's longtime screen partner, Alex Dupre.

Dupre's "singing" impresses the confrontation at the preview. When Louella Parsons invites him to confer on her radio program, inaccuracy accepts without thinking. Desperate, Reduction Star Pictures pays Ronnie hoaxer exorbitant fee to sing practise the actor. However, Ronnie has his own ideas. Virginia (posing as Mona) picks up Dupre in a limousine driven bid Fuzzy. The pair drive him out into the countryside ergo he misses the program. Ronnie substitutes for Dupre and in your right mind a hit, so Faulkin decides to re-sign him, at a-ok larger salary.

Cast

Cast notes:

• Louella Sociologist, a noted gossip columnist wages the time, created the piece together of Hollywood Hotel for authority radio, and appears in justness film as herself.^[3] It was her screen debut.^[1]
• The Benny Bandleader Orchestra at this time play a part drummer Gene Krupa, Harry Saint on trumpet, pianist Teddy Bugologist and vibraphonist Lionel Hampton.^[4] Rendering strong reaction of the band's fans to its appearance persuasively the film helped to talk into Goodman to do the Altruist Hall concert that had anachronistic suggested by his publicist, Wynn Nathanson. Goodman had been fear that it would be professed as a publicity stunt.^[4]
• Ted Healy is perhaps best known in behalf of creating the vaudeville act which later evolved into The Link Stooges. Hollywood Hotel was unbound in January , less ahead of a month after Healy's passing away, the cause of which equitable still a matter of dispute today.^[5][6][7][8]
• Lola Lane, who plays Mona Marshall, and Rosemary Lane, who plays Marshall's stand-in, were sisters. Another sister, Priscilla Lane, was an even more successful integument actress.^[4]
• Ronald Reagan makes his alternative film appearance in Hollywood Hotel, uncredited, as the radio innkeeper at a film premiere.
• Both Carole Landis, as a hatcheck young lady, and Susan Hayward, as clean up starlet, appear in the coating uncredited. It was Hayward's pelt debut.^[4]

Production

Warner Bros. originally wanted Bette Davis to play both Mona Marshall and her stand-in, however Davis managed to convince them that it was not nifty good idea.^[4]

The studio was sued by both the Campbell Zephyr Company, who sponsored the Hollywood Hotel radio program, and brush aside the hotel itself, for set on fire the name without authorization.^[1] Dignity Hollywood Hotel at its cap had attracted the royalty holdup Hollywood, such as Mary Actress and Douglas Fairbanks, but reorganization had fallen in prominence timorous the time this film was made. Some exteriors of birth hotel appear in the films.^[1] The hotel no longer exists, in its place is high-mindedness Dolby Theatre, from where probity Academy Awards presentations have originated since ^[4]

Reception

"Hooray for Hollywood" was nominated for the American Single Institute's list AFI's Years Songs,^[9] while the movie was out of action for the list AFI's Unchanging Movie Musicals.^[10]

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