Hollywood Hotel

Hollywood Hotel

Hollywood Hotel
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Actor: Benny Goodman, Curt Bois, Don Barclay, Eddie Acuff, William B. Davidson
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video

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Movie Review: Chock-full of 1930s goodies
Summary: 5 Stars

"C'mon and try your luck, you could be Donald Duck! Hooray for Hollywood!"

This 1937 musical comedy is a feature-length cornucopia of all things good about that era's more light-hearted flicks: Swing music (with Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa, no less); a good-looking lead (Dick Powell), two good-looking female leads played by real-life sisters Rosemary Lane and Lola Lane, a posh hotel, lots of character support, a classic mistaken-identity plot, Busby Berkeley's campy production numbers and of course, the title song celebrating "screwy, ballyhooey" Hollywood. They pulled out all the stops on this one.

"Hollywood Hotel" is a difficult film to dislike even if some of the songs' lyrics are a little awkward at times. The film just pops with narrative event and music, as Dick Powell, who plays a saxophone, is suddenly taken for a pop singer and (what else?) the market being what it is, sets out to become one. As you might think, our hero goes from riches to rags (working at a drive-in diner) though to the inevitable happy ending. Busby Berkeley's fluid camera direction is at work in musical and non-musical sequences alike, his sweeping ballroom shots and rack-focus intensity equally fulfilling for the information and energy they contain. If you liked any of the 'Golddiggers' movies, this one is for you. Likewise, if you've seen the Fred-and-Ginger 1930s spectacles out of RKO, this is a good place to see what other studios had to offer.

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