Hollywood

Hollywood (1923)

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...

Date of release
1923-08-19
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
James Cruze

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Los Angeles

Hollywood is a 1923 American silent comedy film directed by James Cruze, adapted by Thomas J. Geraghty from a short story by Frank Condon, and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is a lengthier feature follow-up to Paramount's own short film exposé of itself, A Trip to Paramountown from 1922.

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