Hollywood (1923 film)

Hollywood is a 1923 American silent comedy film directed by James Cruze, co-written by Frank Condon and Thomas J. Geraghty, and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is a lengthier feature follow-up to Paramount's own short film exposé of itself, A Trip to Paramountown from 1922.

The film has become famous as having featured cameos of more than fifty famous Hollywood stars. However, the film is now considered a lost film.

Plot

Angela Whitaker (Hope Drown) is a young unknown who comes to Hollywood to become an actress, and brings her grandfather, Joel Whitaker (Luke Cosgrave). At the end of the first day, she has not found work, but her grandfather has found work.

Cast

Hope Drown as Angela Whitaker

Luke Cosgrave as Joel Whitaker

George K. Arthur as Lem Lefferts

Ruby Lafayette as Grandmother Whitaker

Harris Gordon as Dr. Luke Morrison

Bess Flowers as Hortense Towers

Eleanor Lawson as Margaret Whitaker

King Zany as Horace Pringle

Cameos

See also

List of lost films

Fascinating Youth

Mary of the Movies

Show People

Souls for Sale

A Trip to Paramountown

References

External links

Hollywood at SilentEra

1923 films

1923 comedy films

Silent American comedy films

American silent feature films

American black-and-white films

Famous Players-Lasky films

Films about actors

Films directed by James Cruze

Films set in Los Angeles

Films shot in Los Angeles

Lost American comedy films

Paramount Pictures films

Films about Hollywood, Los Angeles

1923 lost films

1920s American films

1920s English-language films

English-language comedy films