Frank Buelow
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Showgirl in Hollywood is a 1930 American pre-Code all-talking musical film with Technicolor sequences, produced and distributed by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. The film stars Alice White, Jack Mulhall and Blanche Sweet. It was adapted from the 1929 novel Hollywood Girl by J.P. McEvoy.
Show Girl in Hollywood: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With Alice White, Jack Mulhall, Blanche Sweet, Ford Sterling. 'Rainbow Girls' has just opened and closed on Broadway when Dixie, a actress in it, runs into smooth-talking Hollywood Director Frank Buelow.
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- Comedy, Drama, Musical
- Mervyn LeRoy
- 1930-04-20
- Dixie Dugan
- Vitaphone
- Technicolor
- Guest Appearances
- Alice White as Dixie Dugan
- The Men of Show Girl in Hollywood
- Blanche Sweet as Donny Harris
- Final Thoughts
- Sources
The character, drawn by John H. Striebel, strongly resembled film star Louise Brooks. This was no coincidence as Brooks’ biographer Barry Paris wrote that Dixie’s creator, writer J.P. McEvoy, “modeled Dixie on Louise” (204) right from the start. But the comics were actually Dixie’s final landing spot. Dixie Dugan wasn’t around very long before maki...
Warner Brothers and First National were soon famed for their backstage musicals, but Show Girl in Hollywood offers a fascinating peek at the behind the scenes goings-on of a Hollywoodmusical. Of even greater curiosity is the peek it gives us at the Vitaphone process that was used not only for Show Girl in Hollywood, but the film within the film, Ra...
Unfortunately Show Girl in Hollywood’sTechnicolor sequences no longer survive for us to view. But a little imagination along with knowledge of where the color sequences had appeared earn the film some bonus points on creative grounds. Most sources offer a general report that the Technicolor sequences were used for the last reel of Show Girl in Holl...
Al and Ruby just wave to us from their car, but Show Girl in Hollywood’snext guest actually makes her way down the red carpet to greet us. “Good evening folks,” seventeen year old Miss Loretta Young says. Then sounding every bit her age: “This certainly is a big crowd and heaps of lights and lots of fun and excitement for the premiere of the Rainbo...
Poor Alice White. Yes, I’m in that camp. Descriptions of Alice on screen typically congratulate her for being cute and energetic but tear into her for not having any talent. She’s a petite figure with high cheekbones, puckered lips and giant eyes whose pupils glide every which way. Formerly a brunette, sometimes a redhead, she wears a bleached blon...
The actors wearing the primary white and black hats in Show Girl in Hollywood, Jack Mulhall and John Miljan, were each silent film veterans, especially Mulhall, whose screen career dated back to 1910. Both men proved more than equal to their talkie tasks in this film. Each of these men continued working well into the 1950s, but both had already enj...
Former silent star Blanche Sweet stands as one of the highlights of Show Girl in Hollywood. Sweet had been on the stage since she was an infant, but is most famously recalled as D.W. Griffith’s leading lady at the Biograph from about 1910-1914, in between similar such runs for Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish. After Judith of Bethulia(1914) she jumpe...
Show Girl in Hollywoodremains a fascinating film even if it is buoyed more by the trivia not only surrounding it, but unfolding within it, than it is by virtue of its actual content. If you happen to like Alice White than Show Girl in Hollywoodcan’t miss. If you’re not a fan than this isn’t the film that’s going to turn you into one. All of her wea...
“Alice White’s Back Again! Recall Her?” Milwaukee Journal 4 Sep 1938: 7. Google News. Web. 23 Nov 2012.Barrios, Richard. A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical FilmNew York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 207.”Blanche Sweet Is Bankrupt, Report.” Hayward Daily Review 21 Apr 1933: 5. NewspaperArchive. Web. 22 Nov 2012.Golden, Eve. Bride of Golden ImagesAlbany, GA: BearManor, 2009.Stream 'Show Girl in Hollywood' and watch online. Discover streaming options, rental services, and purchase links for this movie on Moviefone.
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- Alice White
- Mervyn Leroy
Alice White stars as pert chorine Dixie Dugan, a character she'd played in 1928's Show Girl (and one which would spin off into a long-running comic strip). This time, Dixie is brought to Hollywood to appear in a music titled The Rainbow Girl.
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