GOING HOLLYWOOD

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CREDITS

1933, 80 minutes, B&W.
Producer, Walter Wanger; Director, Raoul Walsh; Screenplay, Donald Ogden Stewart and Frances Marion; Cinematography, George Folsey; Music Director, Lennie Hayton; Choreography, Albertina Rasch.

CAST

Sylvia Bruce, Marion Davies; Bill Williams, Bing Crosby; Lili Yvonne, Fifi D'Orsay; Ernest P. Baker, Stuart Erwin; Conroy, Ned Sparks; Jill, Patsy Kelly; Thompson, Bobby Watson.

SONGS

Temptation; We'll Make Hay While the Sun Shines; Our Big Love Scene; Going Hollywood; Cinderella's Fella; After Sundown; Beautiful Girl by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown; Just an Echo in the Valley by Reginald Connelly, Jimmy Campbell and Harry Woods.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

"Marion Davies plays a disgruntled schoolteacher who falls deeply in love with Crosby when she hears him singing on the radio. Hopelessly smitten, she follows him to Hollywood, where she comically works her way onto the set of his next film and into his heart."
- Liner Notes from MGM/Turner Laserdisc

NOTES

"Modest but enjoyable. . ."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"Lavishly produced musical with everything but a story."
- Variety

This was Patsy Kelly's film debut.

Composer Lennie Hayton appeared as a conductor and pianist in the film.

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