Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Show People (1928)

MGM
Directed by King Vidor
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)

Fluff about a naive girl from Georgia who arrives in Hollywood searching for fame and fortune. She starts out in slapstick comedy where she meets and eventually falls in love with her carefree costar. She becomes in instant success, but wants to be taken as a serious actress so abandons the comedy troupe and takes up with a stuffy studio to make drama pictures. She becomes engaged to her leading man, but her old comedy pal shows up just in time to show her the error of her ways. Of interest now mainly for glimpses at backstage Hollywood and cameos of silent film stars, including an amusing bit where Marion Davies meets herself!

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