Hollywood Boulevard (1936 film)
| Hollywood Boulevard | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Robert Florey |
| Written by | Faith Thomas Max Marcin Marguerite Roberts |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Hollywood Boulevard is a comedy film directed by Robert Florey and released on August 21, 1936, by Paramount Pictures.[1]
Plot
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Has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine publisher Jordan Winston.
When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, asks him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
Cast
[edit]- John Halliday as John Blakeford
- Marsha Hunt as Patricia Blakeford
- Robert Cummings[2] as Jay Wallace
- C. Henry Gordon as Jordan Winslow
- Esther Ralston as Flora Moore
- Esther Dale as Martha
- Frieda Inescort as Alice Winslow
- Albert Conti as Sanford, Trocadero manager
- Thomas E. Jackson as detective
- Oscar Apfel as Dr. Inslow
- Purnell Pratt as Mr. Steinman
- Irving Bacon as Gus, Trocadero bartender
- Richard Powell as Pete Moran
- Rita La Roy as Nella
- Francis X. Bushman as director, desert scene
- Maurice Costello as director
- Betty Compson as Betty
- Mae Marsh as Carlotta Blakeford
- Charles Ray as Charlie Smith, assistant director
- Herbert Rawlinson as manager of Grauman's
- Jane Novak as Mrs. Steinman
- Bryant Washburn as Robert Martin
- Jack Mulhall as actor at Trocadero bar
- Creighton Hale as actor at Trocadero bar
- Roy D'Arcy as The Sheik
- Jack Mower as Frank Stucky, director
- Frank Mayo as actor at Trocadero bar
- Harry Myers as actor at Trocadero bar
- Mabel Forrest as mother at Chinese Theatre
- Tom Kennedy as bouncer at Pago Pago
- Pat O'Malley as Pago Pago patron
- Lois Kent as little girl at Grauman's Chinese Theatre
- Eleanore Whitney as patron at Grauman's Chinese Theatre
- Evelyn Brent (scenes deleted)
- Louise Brooks (scenes deleted)
- William Farnum (scenes deleted)
- Alice Lake (scenes deleted)
- Florence Lawrence (scenes deleted)
- Harold Lloyd as Harold Lloyd, cameo appearance (scenes deleted)
- Rosemary Theby (scenes deleted)
- Dorothy Wilson (scenes deleted)
- William Bailey as Trocadero patron (uncredited)
- Bobby Barber as man with gong (uncredited)
- Edmund Burns as Pago Pago patron (uncredited)
- Edward Cecil as butler (uncredited)
- Ethel Clayton (uncredited)
- Ruth Clifford as nurse (uncredited)
- Gary Cooper as actor at Trocadero bar (uncredited)
- Edgar Dearing as motorcycle cop (uncredited)
- William Desmond as Pago Pago patron (uncredited)
- Ellen Drew as Terry Ray, casting office secretary (uncredited)
- Lowell Drew as doorman at Trocadero (uncredited)
- Eddie Dunn as grip (uncredited)
- Ann Evers (uncredited)
- Hyman Fink as Snapshot Hymie (uncredited)
- Jerry Fletcher as vendor (uncredited)
- James Ford as Pago Pago patron (uncredited)
- Margaret Harrison as Pago Pago patron (uncredited)
- Robert Homans as Gray (uncredited)
- Margaret Mann as woman in casting office (uncredited)
- Marshall Neilan as Cinegrill customer (uncredited)
Production
[edit]The casting was announced in June 1936.[3] Many former silent era actors had small roles.[4]
Reception
[edit]Frank Nugent of The New York Times was critical of the film: "It is, as you may judge, a pretty hoary melodrama and [a] slight enough excuse for a whole series of homilies upon the uncertainty of fame and fortune in the glamour city."[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ Hollywood Boulevard Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 3, Iss. 25, (Jan 1, 1936): 152.
- ↑ Vagg, Stephen (October 29, 2024). "Movie Star Cold Streaks: Robert Cummings". Filmink. Retrieved October 29, 2024.
- ↑ Scenes from Newsreel Used as Film 'Sets' Chicago Daily Tribune 3 June 1936: 23.
- ↑ A Town Called Hollywood Scheuer, Philip K. Los Angeles Times 28 June 1936: C1.
- ↑ Nugent, Frank S. (September 21, 1936). "Minor Notes on 'Hollywood Boulevard,' Now at the Rialto, and 'Trouble Ahead,' at the Globe". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 25, 2026.
External links
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