The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) on Netflix
Two masters of ceremonies lead a musical comedy revue, one speaking for the Hollywood film community and one for the Broadway stage. Chorus numbers and a cavalcade of stars fill the bill.
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Plot summary
A musical comedy revue with no storyline, staged as a string of variety acts. Two masters of ceremonies lead it, one speaking for the Hollywood film community and one for the Broadway stage. Chorus boys and girls appear at the front of some numbers and support others, while the revue's purpose is to display a cavalcade of movie and stage stars. A running gag has the two hosts playing straight man to a singer seeking a proper introduction to his act. Comedy sketches, song and dance numbers fill the bill.
Cast
- Lorayne Broxas Self - One of the Brox Sisters
- Bobbe Broxas Self - One of the Brox Sisters
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
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- "Singin' in the Rain" made its debut in the revue, sung by Cliff Edwards as "Ukulele Ike" and reprised in the all-star Technicolor finale. The number was a last-minute addition, shot late at night on June 10, 1929, just ten days before the film's premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
- The only major MGM stars missing from the revue were Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, who was on hiatus studying music in Europe, and Lon Chaney. Chaney offered to appear if the studio counted the revue as one of the three feature films a year his $5,000-a-week contract required, but MGM refused and he does not appear.
- MGM's gamble on a revue with no storyline paid off and set off a run of imitations at other studios: Warner Bros. satirized it in The Show of Shows, Paramount presented Paramount on Parade and Universal offered King of Jazz.
- A planned sequence in which Marie Dressler parodied the Albertina Rasch ballet's "pearl dance" was never shot, and Buster Keaton's specialty took its place, though Dressler still posed for stills in a Lady Godiva wig.
- The only sequence cut from the film was three songs by The Brox Sisters, which was recycled into the short subject Gems of MGM.
