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Hollywood Cavalcade (1939) DVD
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Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Directors:
Irving Cummings, Buster Keaton (uncredited)Writers:
Ernest Pascal (screenplay), Hilary Lynn (story)Stars:
Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward BrombergHollywood Cavalcade was a fictionalized history of silent films and the growth of the movie industry. Don Ameche portrays a character based on equal portions of Mack Sennett and D. W. Griffith, while Alice Faye's silent star is an amalgam of Mabel Normand and Gloria Swanson. Ameche breaks into pictures with slapstick comedies, initiating the first "pie throwing" scene, with Buster Keaton the thrower and Alice Faye the throw-ee. Thanks to Ameche, Faye becomes a major comedy star, appearing in wild Keystone Kops chase comedies. But success goes to Ameche's head, and soon he's staging elaborateIntolerance-like historical spectacles. As Ameche's artistic aspirations climb, his relationship with the faithful Alice deteriorates. She finds solace with her young leading man (Alan Curtis) and becomes a top dramatic star. Having made and lost several fortunes, Ameche talks Alice into appearing in his "comeback" picture, but shortly before filming ends, she and her husband are in a serious auto accident. The husband is killed, and as Faye recuperates, Ameche agonizes over how he'll save his uncompleted masterpiece. He witnesses the premiere of Al Jolson's part-talking The Jazz Singer and decides to risk everything by scrapping his film and remaking it as a talkie. Faye, who's never really stopped loving Ameche, agrees to star in this new project. On a level of accuracy, Hollywood Cavalcade is for the birds, but it scores on its energetic performances and nostalgic appeal. As a bonus, several past movie greats appear in cameos: Al Jolson, Buster Keaton, Mack Sennett, Ben Turpin, Chester Conklin,Jimmy Finlayson, Hank Mann and even Rin Tin Tin Jr.
Product Reviews
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All about Mack Sennett and Mabel Norman
Posted by Philip on Dec 16th 2023
This is the Sennett and Norman story, done years before the musical "Mack and Mabel". The film is in technicolor, except for the slapstick scenes, which are wonderful. Ms. Faye, as "Mabel", really knew how to take a pie in the face. Stange, however, that this film was produced in color, because, (and be aware) that this is NOT a musical. Only problem that this film might have, is that it gets bogged down, in heavy dramatics, toward the end of the film. A good chance as well, to see such silent comedians as Keaton, Conklin, and Turpin. A very worthwhile film, even with the false dramatics.
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