What Price Hollywood?

One of those movies that's enjoyable enough with reasonably interesting characters, but just lacks the spark to be particularly memorable.

Kind of a cross between A Star is Born and Sunset Blvd. What makes this pre-code work is Lowell Sherman's performance as the washed up director, and the realism in the story about what Hollywood fame does to him. Just two years later a film like this could have never been made and stayed true to its story.

Oh, started so promising. An amusing parody of Hollywood life and scandals and with a interesting romance between Constance Bennett and Neil Hamilton. But the movie took a turn for the worst the second half and unable to make a pay-off from the sparkling start. It's like they just ran out of ideas and inspiration and it became a rather standard soppy story to finish off. Bennett did one of her best performances of her career at this point and managed to keep a good profile though out.

Yeah, that suicide scene is pretty great. Basically a movie about friendship, complete with a shitty, abusive "romance" juxtaposed to make the point clearer.

I enjoyed this more by watching after the 2018 version of A Star is Born, Constance Bennett was wonderfully cast as a Hollywood blonde. The story speeds up really quickly after she gets married---all of a sudden she's divorced and has a 1-year-old? When Ronnie breaks into her apartment it's also problematic to modern eyes. Great suicide flashback scene. Fav scene: initial flirting back-and-forth at the polo grounds.

That suicide scene was great. Sherman's performance was wonderful

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Hollywood estreava há 90 anos nos EUA. O curioso é que esse filme inspirou as versões de A Star is Born, mas a versão que o próprio Cukor dirigiu em 1954 é vastamente superior em todos os sentidos possíveis. Sem falar que absolutamente detestei o final desse aqui. Não lembro de onde fiz o download, mas provavelmente foi no ok.ru.

This pre-code Hollywood melodrama is obviously the inspiration for "A Star Is Born". So much so that Cukor was initially offered the job of directing the 1937 version of that film. This film separates the drunken-star-on-the-way-down character from the romantic interest, which I think results in a better story. Cukor invests this film with a ton of energy resulting in something like a comic tragic melodrama. My only real complaint about it is it's truly last minute happy ending.