Directed by:
George CukorCinematography:
Charles RosherComposer:
Max SteinerCast:
Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton, Gregory Ratoff, Louise Beavers, King Baggot, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Patricia Farr, Bryant Washburn (more)Plots(1)
Often misjudged as a dress rehearsal for his famed 1954 adaptation of A Star Is Born, What Price Hollywood? is a drastically different beast – a demystification of the Hollywood myth that is far grittier and less sentimental than the Judy Garland musical. Constance Bennett plays a waitress who gets skyrocketed to stardom after a chance encounter with Lowell Sherman’s alcoholic director. Inevitable heartbreak ensues as the new-born star becomes disillusioned with Hollywood. Neither an outright condemnation of movie culture nor a romanticization of Tinseltown, What Price Hollywood? offers a rare, clinical look at Hollywood, rendering it as an industrial machine, a corporate juggernaut, rather than a factory of dreams. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
![Constance Bennett](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/281/281243_705751.jpg)
Constance Bennett
USA
Best movies:
The Unsuspected (1947)
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
Topper (1937)
![Lowell Sherman](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272381_03094e.jpg)
Lowell Sherman
USA
Best movies:
Way Down East (1920)
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
Ladies of Leisure (1930)
![Neil Hamilton](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/097/319/97319242_d1cdc6.jpg)
Neil Hamilton
USA
Best movies:
Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
America (1924)
![Gregory Ratoff](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/273/273230_2f81dd.jpg)
Gregory Ratoff
Russian Empire
Best movies:
All About Eve (1950)
Sabrina (1954)
The Moon Is Blue (1953)
![Louise Beavers](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/499/499994_ae1499.jpg)
Louise Beavers
USA
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
![King Baggot](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270980_0a2cc7.jpg)
King Baggot
USA
Best movies:
A Night at the Opera (1935)
San Francisco (1936)
Come Live with Me (1941)
![Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/919/160919553_6226f3.jpg)
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Love Is News (1937)
Jezebel (1938)
![Patricia Farr](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/726/159726595_3964e7.jpg)
Patricia Farr
USA
Best movies:
This Gun for Hire (1942)
Footlight Parade (1933)
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
![Bryant Washburn](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/000/159000332_c0c46f.jpg)
Bryant Washburn
USA
Best movies:
Stagecoach (1939)
Two O'Clock Courage (1945)
Nevada (1944)
![Harry Strang](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/948/159948710_66f16a.gif)
Harry Strang
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
North by Northwest (1959)
Love Crazy (1941)
![Brooks Benedict](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/310/160310879_7d6cd0.jpg)
Brooks Benedict
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Edmund Mortimer
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
It Started with Eve (1941)
![Heinie Conklin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/346/160346043_fdc1fe.gif)
Heinie Conklin
USA
Best movies:
Modern Times (1936)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Circus (1928)
![Aggie Herring](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/387/160387459_5a4551.jpg)
Aggie Herring
USA
Best movies:
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
![Eric Wilton](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/514/160514460_9b8db9.jpg)
Eric Wilton
UK
Best movies:
Limelight (1952)
Gaslight (1944)
After the Thin Man (1936)
![Florence Roberts](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/781/160781208_6dd4b0.jpg)
Florence Roberts
USA
Best movies:
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Les Misérables (1935)
The Song of Songs (1933)
Dick Rush
Australia
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
After the Thin Man (1936)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Paddy O'Flynn
USA
Best movies:
After the Thin Man (1936)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Love Is News (1937)
![Effie Ellsler](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/585/161585809_7e184a.jpg)
Effie Ellsler
USA
Best movies:
The Front Page (1931)
Black Fury (1935)
Camille (1936)
![George Periolat](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/275/161275078_cb16ba.jpg)
George Periolat
USA
Best movies:
Morning Glory (1933)
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
Blood and Sand (1922)