Hollywood Boulevard

Aug 20, 1936

1h 15m

★ 2.7

ONE DAY A STAR - THE NEXT AN EXTRA!

Overview

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

John Wellington Blakeford

John Halliday

Patricia Blakeford

Marsha Hunt

Jay Wallace

Robert Cummings

Jordan Winslow

C. Henry Gordon

Flora Moore

Esther Ralston

Martha

Esther Dale

Alice Winslow

Frieda Inescort

Bill Sanford - Trocadero Manager

Albert Conti

Detective

Thomas E. Jackson

Dr. Inslow

Oscar Apfel

Mr. Steinman

Purnell Pratt

Gus - Trocadero Bartender

Irving Bacon

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