Hollywood Boulevard - 1936 - 6/10
The Silent era has-been still has his pride, though casting directors shun him.
Until a magazine publisher offers to print his memoirs for a princely sum.
His reminisces are discreet, gentlemanly, whereupon the editor rewrites them into spicy tell-alls.
Well, that’s what readers want! Scuz, trash, filth. Who cares about reputations?
The film is packed with cameos of faded Silent stars, even a rising Gary Cooper.
Would that the whole film were thus.
Instead, there is a secondary story of an estranged daughter and her unbelievably obnoxious boyfriend.
Fast-forward scenes with eager beaver Bob Cummings and this will be more enjoyable.