Hollywood Cavalcade | |
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Directed by |
Irving Cummings Malcolm St. Clair (silent sequences) Buster Keaton (uncredited) |
Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck |
Written by | Ernest Pascal |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date
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October 13, 1939 |
Running time
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97 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Hollywood Cavalcade is a 1939 American film featuring Alice Faye as a young performer making her way in the early days of Hollywood, from slapstick silent pictures through the transition from silent to sound.
Atypical for Faye's 20th Century Fox output, this has no musical numbers, and the tone is more dramatic than comic. (The alternate title was Falling Stars.) The first part of the film provides a fictionalized look at silent-era performers and their productions.