The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
1929 · Feature film · 118 min · dir. Charles Reisner
25 of the screen's greatest stars - chorus of 200 - amazingly revolutionary motion picture!
- Comedy
- Music
Synopsis
Conrad Nagel, representing the Hollywood movie community, and Jack Benny, representing the Broadway stage community, act as the interlocutors of a musical comedy revue. A plethora of chorus boys and girls are featured front and center in some of the song and dance numbers, and provide back-up to some other acts. But the revue primarily is a vehicle to highlight a cavalcade of Hollywood movie and Broadway stage stars. One early running gag has both Nagel and Benny playing straight man to Cliff Edwards, who just wants a nice introduction to his act. Edwards would return later to be featured along with the Brox Sisters in one of the highlights of the second act, a production number around the song "Singin' in Rain", complete with rain soaked stage. A reprise of the song with the entire cast acts as the revue's finale.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Charles Reisner
- Writer
- Joseph Farnham
- Composer
- Arthur Lange
- Cinematography
- John M. Nickolaus
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Released
- 1929-11-23
- Running time
- 118 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Feature Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Musical
Cast & crew
Charles Reisner Director
Conrad Nagel
Jack Benny
John Gilbert
Norma Shearer
Joan Crawford
Bessie Love
Cliff Edwards
Stan Laurel
