Hollywood Cavalcade
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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| Directed by | Irving Cummings |
| Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Written by | Ernest Pascal |
| Story by | Hilary Lynn Brown Holmes |
| Starring | Alice Faye Don Ameche J. Edward Bromberg Alan Curtis |
| Music by | Cyril J. Mockridge |
| Cinematography | Allen M. Davey Ernest Palmer |
| Edited by | Walter Thompson |
Production company | 20th Century Fox |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 97 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Atypical for Faye's 20th Century Fox output, this has no musical numbers, and the tone is more dramatic than comic. (The alternate title was Falling Stars.) The first part of the film provides a fictionalized look at silent-era performers and their productions.
Plot
In 1913, Director Michael Linnett Connors (Don Ameche), chooses Broadway star Molly Adair (Alice Faye) to be in his next film. Although she is in love with him, she marries her co-star Nicky Hayden (Alan Curtis), wrongly thinking that Connors thinks of her only in terms of movies. Connors misunderstands her and fires her, but with that his career quickly declines with the beginning of the sound era.
Cast
- Alice Faye as Molly Adair Hayden
- Don Ameche as Mike Connors
- J. Edward Bromberg as Dave Spingold
- Alan Curtis as Nicky Hayden
- Stuart Erwin as Mike's Cameraman
- Jed Prouty as Keystone Cop Police Chief
- Buster Keaton as Himself
- Donald Meek as Studio Chief
- George Givot as An Englishman in the Show
- Al Jolson as Himself
- Eddie Collins as Keystone Cop
- Russell Hicks as Roberts
- Hank Mann as Keystone Cop
- Heinie Conklin as Keystone Cop
- James Finlayson as Keystone Cop
- Chick Chandler as Keystone Cop
- Snub Pollard as Keystone Cop
- Robert Lowery as Henry Potter
- Russell Hicks as Roberts
- Ben Welden as Agent
- Willie Fung as Willie
- Paul Stanton as Filson
- Mary Forbes as Mrs. Gaynes
- Joseph Crehan as Attorney
- Irving Bacon as Clerk
- Ben Turpin as Bartender in Western
- Chester Conklin as Sheriff in Western
- Marjorie Beebe as Telephone Operator
- Frederick Burton as Thomas
- Lee Duncan as Lee Duncan, the Dog Trainer
- Rin Tin Tin Jr. as Rin-Tin-Tin
- Mack Sennett as Himself (uncredited)