What Price Hollywood? (1932) | |
| Director(s) | George Cukor |
| Producer(s) | Pandro S. Berman (associate), David O. Selznick (executive) |
| Top Genres | Drama |
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What Price Hollywood? Overview:
What Price Hollywood? (1932) was a Drama - Black-and-white Film directed by George Cukor and produced by David O. Selznick and Pandro S. Berman.
SYNOPSIS
Cukor's movie breakthrough was a film that producer Selznick considered to be a fairly straight reportage of backstage Hollywood. Bennett, a waitress at the Brown Derby, convinces sozzled director Sherman to squire her around Hollywood and get her a screen test, a toe in the movie waters that leads to Oscars, romance, suicide, marriage, separation, and reconciliation. Cukor revisited the scene of this early success with the more melodramatic A Star is Born (1954).
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Academy Awards 1931/32 --- Ceremony Number 5 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Writing | Adela Rogers St. Johns, Jane Murfin | Nominated |
BlogHub Articles:
What Price Hollywood? (1932): Starring Constance Bennett
By 4 Star Film Fan on May 30, 2022 From 4 Star FilmsHere is a film so completely attuned to Hollywood celebrity and fandom in its heyday. We open on Hollywood fashion magazines full of stockings and lipstick, and glossies of Greta Garbo & Clark Gable. Then, Mary Evans (Constance Bennett) pushes her retractable bed into the wall to head off to her... Read full article
WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD? PART TWO
By Terry on Oct 25, 2015 From Stardust and ShadowsIn the first part of this series I took a capsule look at the Studio System with a nod to the use of drugs in order to produce and package the huge amount of product. It was not a complete look as many smaller operations such as PARAMOUNT PICTURES, RKO and the Poverty Row companies such as PRC, and ... Read full article
WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD? PART ONE
By Terry on Jun 21, 2015 From Stardust and ShadowsTHE STUDIO GATES This is a slightly different look at the Hollywood myth – mainly because we are going to take a ?hardboiled? look at some of the ideas that nostalgic sites gloss over. Not all sites do yet this is an important part of the Hollywood story.? Gloss over, just as the major studios... Read full article
Pre-Code Crazy: What Price Hollywood? (1931)
By shadowsandsatin on May 2, 2015 From Shadows and SatinIn previous months, my Pre-Code Crazy pick has always been a film that I?ve seen numerous times before. And while I was initially quite certain that this month?s selection also fit into that category, it turns out that I?d actually never seen it before! Oh, I?d seen the film?s beginning countless ti... Read full article
What Price Hollywood? (1932) (2)
on Mar 24, 2014 From Journeys in Classic FilmIt’s safe to say I know a lot about Hollywood; whether it’s reviewing movies or, by extension, reviewing movies about the art of making movies there’s no escaping the glittering pool of the silver screen.? It could explain the proliferation of behind-the-curtain features I watch.? ... Read full article
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Quotes from
[Mary enters the projection room]
Julius Saxe: Hello. Hmmm hmmm hmmm. Let me look at you. Fine. Gentlemen. Sit down. Well, what's your name?
Mary Evans: Mary Evans.
Julius Saxe: Mary Evans? No Good. We'll change it.
Maximillan 'Max' Carey: Mary's a grand old name Saxey.
Julius Saxe: Alright, we'll keep it. Well Mary. I tell you what I do. I'll give you a contract, a long term contract for seven years. I'll give you the first year 100, the second year 200. A week! The third year 300 and so on until in seven years you make a million dollars.
Mary Evans: Oh that would be wonderful!
Julius Saxe: Mrs. Spiegel, get mama on the phone. I want to tell her I have discovered a new star.
Maximillan 'Max' Carey: Who discovered a new star?
Julius Saxe: Alright. Maximillian Carey discovered a new star.
Maximillan 'Max' Carey: You're welcome.
Maximillan 'Max' Carey: Well what's the riot about? Hello Mary, anything new?
Julius Saxe: It's going to be terrific! Weddings are my speciality!
Maximillan 'Max' Carey: Wedding? What wedding?
Mary Evans: Mine. Darling aren't you going to congratulate me?
Maximillan 'Max' Carey: What for? It'll never last.
Lonny Borden: What won't last?
Maximillan 'Max' Carey: My liver and a movie star's marriage.
Mary Evans: We know your liver won't last darling!
Mary Evans: Why do you drink all the time? Can't you cut the heavy swilling?
Maximillan 'Max' Carey: What, and be bored all the time?
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Facts about
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson's first movie.
Max Carey was modelled after Lowell Sherman himself, who was known to be an alcoholic, as well as silent film director Marshall Neilan and actor John Barrymore (who was Sherman's brother-in-law at the time).
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