Hollywood Speaks
1932 film
- June 25, 1932 (1932-06-25)
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Hollywood Speaks is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Edward Buzzell and starring Genevieve Tobin, Pat O'Brien and Leni Stengel. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Plot
A despairing young actress is stopped from committing suicide by a gossip columnist who decides to fashion her into a major star.
Cast
- Genevieve Tobin as Gertrude Smith, later known as Greta Swan
- Pat O'Brien as Jimmy Reed
- Lucien Prival as Frederick Landau
- Ralf Harolde as Carp
- Rita La Roy as Millie Coreen
- Leni Stengel as Mrs. Landau
- Anderson Lawlor as Joe Hammond
- Jack Holt as himself
Production
Columbia announced the film in August 1931.[1]
It was Norman Krasna's first film under his contract with Columbia and he started writing it in April 1932.[2] The same amount the studio announced Eddie Buzzel would direct and Genevieve Tobin would star.[3]
Reception
The Los Angeles Times called it a "routine melodrama with little to say of interest."[4]
References
External links
- Hollywood Speaks at IMDb
- Hollywood Speaks at TCMDB
- Review of film at Variety
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Works by Norman Krasna
- Louder, Please (1932)
- Small Miracle (1934)
- The Man with Blond Hair (1941)
- Dear Ruth (1945)
- John Loves Mary (1947)
- Time for Elizabeth (1949)
- Kind Sir (1953)
- Who Was That Lady I Saw You With? (1958)
- Sunday in New York (1962)
- Watch the Birdie! (1964)
- Love in E-Flat (1967)
- Bunny (1970)
- We Interrupt This Program... (1975)
- Lady Harry (1978)
- Off Broadway (1982)
- Hollywood Speaks (1932)
- That's My Boy (1932)
- So This Is Africa (1933)
- Parole Girl (1933)
- Love, Honor, and Oh Baby! (1933)
- Bombshell (1933)
- Meet the Baron (1933)
- The Richest Girl in the World (1934)
- Romance in Manhattan (1935)
- Hands Across the Table (1935)
- Four Hours to Kill! (1935)
- Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
- Fury (1936)
- The King and the Chorus Girl (1937)
- As Good as Married (1937)
- Big City (1937) (also producer)
- The First Hundred Years (1938) (also producer)
- You and Me (1938)
- Bachelor Mother (1939)
- It's a Date (1940)
- The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
- The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
- It Started with Eve (1941)
- Princess O'Rourke (1943) (also director)
- Bride by Mistake (1944) (original story)
- Practically Yours (1944)
- The Big Hangover (1950) (also director)
- Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)
- Behave Yourself! (1951) (producer only)
- The Blue Veil (1951) (producer only)
- Clash by Night (1952) (producer only)
- The Lusty Men (1952) (producer only)
- White Christmas (1954)
- Bundle of Joy (1956)
- The Ambassador's Daughter (1956) (also director)
- Indiscreet (1958)
- Let's Make Love (1960)
- Who Was That Lady? (1960)
- My Geisha (1962)
- Sunday in New York (1963)
- I'd Rather Be Rich (1964)
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