Directed by:
George CukorCinematography:
Charles RosherComposer:
Max SteinerCast:
Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton, Gregory Ratoff, Louise Beavers, King Baggot, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Patricia Farr, Bryant Washburn (more)VOD (1)
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Often misjudged as a dress rehearsal for his famed 1954 adaptation of A Star Is Born, What Price Hollywood? is a drastically different beast – a demystification of the Hollywood myth that is far grittier and less sentimental than the Judy Garland musical. Constance Bennett plays a waitress who gets skyrocketed to stardom after a chance encounter with Lowell Sherman’s alcoholic director. Inevitable heartbreak ensues as the new-born star becomes disillusioned with Hollywood. Neither an outright condemnation of movie culture nor a romanticization of Tinseltown, What Price Hollywood? offers a rare, clinical look at Hollywood, rendering it as an industrial machine, a corporate juggernaut, rather than a factory of dreams. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Constance Bennett
USA
Best movies:
The Unsuspected (1947)
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
Topper (1937)
Lowell Sherman
USA
Best movies:
Way Down East (1920)
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
Ladies of Leisure (1930)
Neil Hamilton
USA
Best movies:
Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
America (1924)
Gregory Ratoff
Russian Empire
Best movies:
All About Eve (1950)
Sabrina (1954)
The Moon Is Blue (1953)
Louise Beavers
USA
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
King Baggot
USA
Best movies:
A Night at the Opera (1935)
San Francisco (1936)
Come Live with Me (1941)
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Love Is News (1937)
Jezebel (1938)
Patricia Farr
USA
Best movies:
This Gun for Hire (1942)
Footlight Parade (1933)
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
Bryant Washburn
USA
Best movies:
Stagecoach (1939)
Two O'Clock Courage (1945)
Nevada (1944)
Harry Strang
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
North by Northwest (1959)
Love Crazy (1941)
Brooks Benedict
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Edmund Mortimer
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Heinie Conklin
USA
Best movies:
Modern Times (1936)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Aggie Herring
USA
Best movies:
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Eric Wilton
UK
Best movies:
Limelight (1952)
Gaslight (1944)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Florence Roberts
USA
Best movies:
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
The Song of Songs (1933)
Les Misérables (1935)
Dick Rush
Australia
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
After the Thin Man (1936)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Paddy O'Flynn
USA
Best movies:
After the Thin Man (1936)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Love Is News (1937)
Effie Ellsler
USA
Best movies:
The Front Page (1931)
Black Fury (1935)
Camille (1936)
George Periolat
USA
Best movies:
Blood and Sand (1922)
Morning Glory (1933)
What Price Hollywood? (1932)