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A New York bank plans to sell a Hollywood studio at a big loss. But the head accountant is suspicious and goes to investigate. He finds chicanery, romance, and help to save the studio.A New York bank plans to sell a Hollywood studio at a big loss. But the head accountant is suspicious and goes to investigate. He finds chicanery, romance, and help to save the studio.A New York bank plans to sell a Hollywood studio at a big loss. But the head accountant is suspicious and goes to investigate. He finds chicanery, romance, and help to save the studio.
Art Baker
- Director of Photography
- (uncredited)
Ralph Brooks
- Dancer
- (uncredited)
Florie Caprino
- Elvira
- (uncredited)
Marianne Edwards
- Elvira
- (uncredited)
Jinx Falkenburg
- Woman at Studio Gate
- (uncredited)
Jim Farley
- Studio Gate Guard
- (uncredited)
Pat Flaherty
- Nightclub Bouncer
- (uncredited)
Charles K. French
- Bank Board Member
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaThe former silent film star in the boarding house, desperate for a small role in a film, is played by Mary MacLaren, a former leading lady of the silent film era who, by the time this film was made, was working as a (sporadically successful) extra. Coincidentally, MacLaren's character is named Naomi; in the 1930's, one of MacLaren's silent era contemporaries, Naomi Childers, was also frequently employed as a background actress in Hollywood at MGM.
- GoofsAs accountant Atterbury Dodd walks through the accounts department, a clerk gives him a slip containing a list of figures which total 1,296,221. Dodd says: "There's an error in the addition. The total should be 1,296,321. Have the machine fixed". The total however is correct. The figures - 63,155; 122,925; 57,005; 54,685; 404,200; 56,705; 122,925; 54,685; 305,250; 54,686 - add up to 1,296,221.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
- SoundtracksIs It True What They Say About Dixie?
(1936) (uncredited)
Written by Irving Caesar, Samuel Lerner and Gerald Marks (1936)
Sung by an unidentified child actress called Elvira with Anne O'Neal playing harmonica
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Hollywood spoof
From the moment you see an epic movie about gorillas, or performing seals in a boarding house, or horrendously untalented little kids with showbiz mommas, you know you have a marvellous Follywood spoof.
This little-mentioned or cited comedy pits snappy Joan Blondell against of all people versatile Leslie Howard, in a studio-set tale of corruption, change, and romance. You'll also find Humphrey Bogart in one of his climbing-up-the ladder roles as a crusty, hard-drinking backroom man.
Blondell plays the stand-in' of the title, that is, the girl who burns under the lights while the leading lady gets pampered and the shot gets set up. Howard is an accountant, transported into a world he doesn't initially appreciated, to discover the reason for the studio's cash-flow problems.
Do you know how it ends yet? This was the film that persuaded me of Howard's incredible gift for getting laughs as well as his dramatic skills, and I've been a fan ever since. Blondell and Bogart are also terrific, and this is a minor, but hugely enjoyable, 30s gem.
This little-mentioned or cited comedy pits snappy Joan Blondell against of all people versatile Leslie Howard, in a studio-set tale of corruption, change, and romance. You'll also find Humphrey Bogart in one of his climbing-up-the ladder roles as a crusty, hard-drinking backroom man.
Blondell plays the stand-in' of the title, that is, the girl who burns under the lights while the leading lady gets pampered and the shot gets set up. Howard is an accountant, transported into a world he doesn't initially appreciated, to discover the reason for the studio's cash-flow problems.
Do you know how it ends yet? This was the film that persuaded me of Howard's incredible gift for getting laughs as well as his dramatic skills, and I've been a fan ever since. Blondell and Bogart are also terrific, and this is a minor, but hugely enjoyable, 30s gem.
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- Jun 6, 2004
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- Den fantastiske Mr. Dodd
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- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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