Hollywood Life Setting For Drama of Screen
JOHN HALLIDAY FEATURED AS EGOTISTIC ACTOR (Kosy: Screening Today.) All the lights and shadows of Hollywood are on view in Paramount’s “Hollywood Boulevard,” a dramatic picture of the comeback of a fallen screen idol. John Halliday has the featured role of an egotistic actor who agrees to sell the story of his love-life for another chance in a picture. When his estranged family appeals to him to stop the scandal, alter tho first chapters, he tries to but tho fan magazino publisher won’t permit it. Then ho threatens to write of his affairs with thc publisher’s wife, and when she threatens him with a pistol, lie is shot. The police charge tho shooting to his daughter, but an unusual twist in the story smooths out the drama in a sensational climax. Marsha Hunt, as tho daughter; C. Henry Gordon, as thc publisher; Robert Cummings in tho juvenilo role; Esther Ralston as the blonde charmer and Frieda Inescort as the unhappy wife, make the story live. They aro assisted by thirty old-time stars of the silent picture days. highlights of Hollywood, beach scenes, the homo of the stars and back stage at the studios provide a colourful background for an evening of real entertainment.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 34, 10 February 1937, Page 11 (Supplement)
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210Hollywood Life Setting For Drama of Screen Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 34, 10 February 1937, Page 11 (Supplement)
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