Hollywood Hotel

Summary Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band, has won a talent contest and a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But she doesn't want to go, so the bosses decide to use a double for her: Virginia. When Mona finds out next morning that happened, she insisted to fire her double and Ronny. Ronny finds work as a singing waiter in a drive-in, and is spotted by a director of the same studio, who wants him to lend his voice for a leading actor in a musical. After the first screening Louella Parsons invites him to sing on her program, "Hollywood Hotel". He accepts, not knowing that Ronny Bowers does not want to lend him his voice again. So everybody starts to play his little game to solve his own problems. View more details

Hollywood Hotel

Directed : Busby Berkeley

Written : Richard Macaulay Jerry Wald Maurice Leo

Stars : Dick Powell Hugh Herbert Rosemary Lane Lola Lane

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Genres : Comedy Romance Musical

Release date : Jan 14, 1938

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Glendale Grand Central Air Terminal - Grandview Avenue, Glendale, California, USA

Production companies : Warner Bros. First National Pictures

Summary Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band, has won a talent contest and a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But she doesn't want to go, so the bosses decide to use a double for her: Virginia. When Mona finds out next morning that happened, she insisted to fire her double and Ronny. Ronny finds work as a singing waiter in a drive-in, and is spotted by a director of the same studio, who wants him to lend his voice for a leading actor in a musical. After the first screening Louella Parsons invites him to sing on her program, "Hollywood Hotel". He accepts, not knowing that Ronny Bowers does not want to lend him his voice again. So everybody starts to play his little game to solve his own problems. View more details

Details

Genres : Comedy Romance Musical

Release date : Jan 14, 1938

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Glendale Grand Central Air Terminal - Grandview Avenue, Glendale, California, USA

Production companies : Warner Bros. First National Pictures

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