Show Girl in Hollywood

Apr 20, 1930

1h 17m

★ 5.4

STUDIO SECRETS EXPOSED!

Overview

Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Music

Production Companies

The Vitaphone Corporation

First National Pictures

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Cast

Dixie Dugan

Alice White

Jimmie Doyle

Jack Mulhall

Donny Harris

Blanche Sweet

Sam Otis

Ford Sterling

Frank Buelow

John Miljan

Miss J. Rule

Virginia Sale

Kramer

Lee Shumway

Bing

Herman Bing

Noah Beery Jr.

Noah Beery

Actor in Scene

Maurice Black

Sign Man Scraping Names off Doors

Billy Bletcher

Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old daughter Mariette. One day, as Carola leaves the building, Brandt catches her in the stairwell and proposes she "visit" him at his apartment after everyone has gone to bed. Shocked and offended at his brazenness, she complains to the building manager, who orders Brandt to leave. He refuses, so the Pointers decide that they will move out instead. While they're packing, the police show up at their apartment with some bad news--Brandt has been found murdered, shot in the head. Inspector Muller, the detective investigating the murder, discovers that there is more to this case than meets the eye.

5.2

Three Wise Girls

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Fed up with her tiny hometown, Cassie Barnes moves to New York City to find a job. She and her two friends, Dot and Gladys, soon have romantic troubles.

5.7

The Good Bad Girl

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A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.

6.0

Blondie of the Follies

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5.8

Blondie Johnson

Feb 25, 1933

A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.

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2.0

Farmer Al Falfa's Ape Girl

Aug 6, 1932

The Farmer is abducted by a capering Jungle Goddess. As pre-Code as a Terrytoon ever got. Most animation is by Frank Moser; with him are Art Babbitt, Jerry Shields, Bill Tytla and others.

6.8

American Madness

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Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.

4.9

Fast and Loose

Nov 8, 1930

A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.

7.2

Baby Face

Jul 13, 1933

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

5.6

Thunderbolt

Jun 20, 1929

A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl, without knowing of their relationship. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing his girl.

5.8

The Unholy Three

Jul 12, 1930

A trio of former sideshow performers double as the "Unholy Three" in a scam to nab some shiny rocks.

6.9

Little Caesar

Jan 25, 1931

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

5.4

The Sin of Nora Moran

Dec 13, 1933

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6.4

The Story of Temple Drake

May 6, 1933

The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.

4.8

I Cover the Waterfront

May 19, 1933

An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.

6.8

The Little Giant

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Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.

6.0

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0.0

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5.5

The Secret Six

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6.0

Shooting Straight

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A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.