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Hollywood Hotel
Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band has won a talent contest an got a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But this lady doesn't want to go, so the bosses decide to use for Mona a double, Virginia. When Mona finds out next morning that happened, she insisted to fire her double and Ronny. Ronny finds work as singing waiter in a drive in, and is spotted by a director of the same studio, who wants him to lend his voice for an leading actor in a musical.
Busby Berkeley
Casts & Crew
Dick Powell
Rosemary Lane
Lola Lane
Hugh Herbert
Ted Healy
Glenda Farrell
Johnnie Davis
Louella Parsons
Alan Mowbray
Mabel Todd
Frances Langford
Jerry Cooper
Grant Mitchell
Edgar Kennedy
Fritz Feld
Curt Bois
Perc Westmore
Eddie Acuff
Clinton Rosemond
William B. Davidson
Wally Maher
Georgie Cooper
Libby Taylor
Joseph Romantini
Paul Irving
Benny Goodman
Raymond Paige
Sid Grauman
Susan Hayward
Harry James
Milton Kibbee
Gene Krupa
Carole Landis
Ethelreda Leopold
Frank McLure
Bert Moorhouse
George O'Hanlon
Ronald Reagan
Paul Whiteman
Mary Wickes
William Worthington
Poppy Wilde
Also Directed by Busby Berkeley
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team. But K.C. turns outs to be a beautiful woman who really knows her baseball. Second baseman Dennis Ryan promptly falls in love. But his playboy roommate Eddie O'Brien has his own notions about how to treat the new lady owner and some unsavory gamblers have their own ideas about how to handle Eddie.
Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raising money to go to Chicago for the contest.
Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead they decide to put up their own show to collect money for a summer camp for the kids.
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
A short history of movie music is presented, from silent films accompanied by a single piano, to the elaborate song scores for musicals (with scenes from MGM's musicals) and background music for dramas. Conductor/composer
Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show.
Joel and Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.