Show Girl in Hollywood

UPC: 883316224779

Studio: Warner Bros. Digital Distribution

MPAA Rating: NR   Contains:[Suitable for Children]

Summary: This wonderful Warner Bros. epic was one of the earliest talkie musicals with a Hollywood background -- and the last of its kind until 1933's Sitting Pretty. Alice White stars as pert chorine Dixie Dugan, a character she'd played in 1928's Show Girl (and one which would spin off into a long-running comic strip). This time, Dixie is brought to Hollywood to appear in a music titled The Rainbow Girl. Thanks to the urgings of her egotistical director (John Miljan), the normally down-to-earth heroine begins acting like a haughty screen queen. Her temperamental behavior causes a shut-down of the production, ruining the comeback attempt of fading star Donna Harris (played by Blanche Sweet, who at 36 looks far younger than her "over-the-hill" character, who's supposed to be 32!) When Donna nearly commits suicide, Dixie realizes what a jerk she's been, and the show -- er, the movie -- goes on. A surprisingly accurate scene from Show Girl in Hollywood, showing a musical number "in production" on the sound stage has since been excerpted in several TV documentaries on the early sound era. The film originally ended with a Technicolor sequence depicting the premiere of the fictional The Rainbow Girl, with several Warner Bros. employees (Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, Loretta Young and Walter Pidgeon) in attendance. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Show Girl in Hollywood

Format: DVD

Release Date: 12/01/2009

Audio: DD1 Dolby Digital Mono

Runtime: 77 Minutes

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Cast and Crew: Walter Pidgeon  Actor 
Spec O'Donnell  Actor 
Leo F. Forbstein  Composer (Music Score) 
Mervyn LeRoy  Director 
Robert North  Producer 
Harvey Thew  Screenwriter 
James A. Starr  Screenwriter 
Alice White  Actor 
Jack Mulhall  Actor 
Blanche Sweet  Actor 
Ford Sterling  Actor 
John Miljan  Actor 
Virginia Sale  Actor 
Lee Shumway  Actor 
Herman Bing  Actor 

Country: USA