An east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio, receives some help from a former child star who now works as a stand-in for the studio.
Acting
Joan Blondell's fast-talking stand-in steals every frame she's in.
Writing
Screenplay was written by a former studio accountant. The math jokes land.
Costume
Depression-era Hollywood excess on full, glittering display.
Director
Tay Garnett
Leslie Howard
Atterbury Dodd
Joan Blondell
Lester Plum
Humphrey Bogart
Doug Quintain
Alan Mowbray
Koslofski
Marla Shelton
Thelma Cheri
C. Henry Gordon
Ivor Nassau
Jack Carson
Tom Potts
William V. Mong
Cyrus Pettypacker
Esther Howard
Mrs, Mack
Charles Middleton
Actor Dressed as Abraham Lincoln
Emerson Treacy
Tommy
Tully Marshall
Fowler Pettypacker
J. C. Nugent
Junior Pettypacker
Charles Williams
Mr. Mack
Olin Howland
Hotel Manager
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The fictional Colossal Studios was based on MGM, and several employees appear as extras—some weren't in on the joke.
Released the same year Disney's Snow White proved animation could be art, this film mourns the assembly-line studio system while being a product of it.
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