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Hollywood Cavalcade is a 1939 American film featuring Alice Faye as a young performer making her way in the early days of Hollywood, from slapstick silent pictures through the transition from silent to sound.

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Hollywood Cavalcade
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Directed by	Irving Cummings
Screenplay by	Ernest Pascal
Story by	Hilary Lynn Brown Holmes
Produced by	Darryl F. Zanuck
Starring	Alice Faye Don Ameche J. Edward Bromberg Alan Curtis
Cinematography	Allen M. Davey Ernest Palmer
Edited by	Walter Thompson
Music by	Cyril J. Mockridge
Production company	20th Century Fox
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	October 13, 1939 (1939-10-13)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Production

In the wake of Alice Faye's 1938 success Alexander's Ragtime Band, which took a nostalgic look at the musical scene of the 1910s, screenwriter Lou Breslow approached studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck with an idea to do another period piece, this time in Technicolor, concerning the early days of silent movies.[1] The film was directed by Irving Cummings, with comedy sequences directed by Mal St. Clair. St. Clair's old crony Buster Keaton staged some of the gags, and a host of silent-era comedians re-created slapstick sight gags. The romance in the storyline was based on the real-life relationship between pioneer producer Mack Sennett and his first star, Mabel Normand.

Atypical for Faye's 20th Century-Fox output, Hollywood Cavalcade has no musical numbers, and the tone is more dramatic than comic. (The working title was Falling Stars.) The film presents a fictionalized look at silent-era performers and their productions, and ends just after the silent-film industry converts to sound films.

Plot

In 1913, movie director Michael Linnett Connors (Don Ameche), chooses Broadway ingenue Molly Adair (Alice Faye) to be in his next film. He makes her a major star in slapstick comedies. Although she is in love with him, she can't understand his preoccupation with the picture business, and wrongly thinks that Connors regards her only in terms of movies. When she marries her co-star Nicky Hayden (Alan Curtis), Connors misunderstands her and fires her. The disillusioned director's career quickly declines, but his ice-cold demeanor changes when he sees the first talking feature film. Inspired, he approaches Molly and eagerly plans her first sound film.

Cast

References

External links

• Hollywood Cavalcade at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie
• Turner Classic Movies page

На других языках

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[de] Damals in Hollywood

Damals in Hollywood ist eine US-amerikanische Filmkomödie aus dem Jahr 1939 mit zahlreichen Gastauftritten von Stars aus der Stummfilmzeit. Der Film wurde von 20th Century Fox produziert und lehnt sich an das Leben des Stummfilmproduzenten Mack Sennett und dessen erstem Star Mabel Normand an.

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- [en] Hollywood Cavalcade

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[ru] Голливудская кавалькада

Голливудская кавалькада (англ. Hollywood Cavalcade) — американская кинокомедия 1939 года режиссёра Ирвинга Каммингса.

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