What Price Hollywood?

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What Price Hollywood? ★★★ 1932

Aspiring young starlet decides to crash film world by using an alcoholic director as her stepping stone. Bennett is lovely; Sherman is superb as an aging, dissolute man who watches his potential slip away. From a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns. Remade three times as “A Star is Born.” 88m/B VHS . Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton; D: George Cukor; W: Robert Presnell Sr., Gene Fowler Sr., Jane Murfin, Ben Markson, Allen Rivkin, Rowland Brown; C: Charles Rosher; M: Max Steiner.

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