Hollywood cavalcade [dvd] / Twentieth Century-Fox presents Darryl F. Zanuck's production ; screen play by Ernest Pascal ; story by Hilary Lynn & Brown Holmes ; associate producer, Harry Joe Brown ; directed by Irving Cummings.
Format:
[dvd] /
Publisher:
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward Bromberg, Alan Curtis, Stuart Erwin, Al Jolson, Donald Meek, Buster Keaton, George Givot, Eddie Collins, Lynn Bari, Jed Prouty, Chester Conklin, Ben Turpin, Hank Mann, Snub Pollard. Based upon an original idea by Lou Breslow. Originally released as a motion picture in 1939. Special features: "Hollywood cavalcade: the silent dream" featurette; "Buster Keaton: head over heels in Hollywood" featurette; "Hello Roscoe: the fate of Fatty Arbuckle" featurette; outtakes; Fox Movietonews: The Hollywood cavalcade premier; restoration comparison; advertising gallery; still gallery.
Summary:
Molly Adair is a toiling stage actress in New York City. She aspires to make it big in the fledgling motion picture business. As the years pass, Molly's star continues to rise. Hollywood director Michael Linnet Connors discovers Molly and takes her from a Broadway understudy to a 1913 Hollywood star. She marries her co-star thinking Connors is not in love with her. Connors fires both of them, damaging his career.
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