Hollywood (1923 film)

Hollywood is a 1923 American silent comedy film directed by James Cruze, co-written by Frank Condon and Thomas J. Geraghty, and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is a lengthier feature follow-up to Paramount's own short film exposé of itself, A Trip to Paramountown from 1922.^[1]

Hollywood
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	James Cruze
Written by	Thomas J. Geraghty (scenario)
Story by	Frank Condon
Produced by	Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky
Starring	Hope Drown George K. Arthur Ruby Lafayette Harris Gordon Bess Flowers Luke Cosgrave Eleanor Lawson
Cinematography	Karl Brown
Production company	Famous Players–Lasky
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	August 19, 1923 (1923-08-19) (United States)
Running time	8 reels (8217 feet)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The film has become famous as having featured cameos of more than fifty famous Hollywood stars. However, the film is now considered a lost film.^[2][3][4]

Plot

Angela Whitaker (Hope Drown) is a young unknown who comes to Hollywood to become an actress, and brings her grandfather, Joel Whitaker (Luke Cosgrave). At the end of the first day, she has not found work, but her grandfather has found work.

Cast

Six-sheet poster for Hollywood

• Hope Drown as Angela Whitaker
• Luke Cosgrave as Joel Whitaker
• George K. Arthur as Lem Lefferts
• Ruby Lafayette as Grandmother Whitaker
• Harris Gordon as Dr. Luke Morrison
• Bess Flowers as Hortense Towers
• Eleanor Lawson as Margaret Whitaker
• King Zany as Horace Pringle

Cameos

• Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
• Gertrude Astor
• Mary Astor
• Agnes Ayres
• Baby Peggy
• Noah Beery
• William Boyd
• Charles Chaplin
• Edythe Chapman
• Betty Compson
• Ricardo Cortez
• Bebe Daniels
• Cecil B. DeMille
• William C. deMille
• Charles de Rochefort
• Richard Dix
• Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
• Dot Farley
• James Finlayson
• Sid Grauman
• Alan Hale Sr.
• Hope Hampton
• William S. Hart
• Jack Holt
• Leatrice Joy
• J. Warren Kerrigan
• Lila Lee
• Jacqueline Logan
• Jeanie Macpherson
• May McAvoy
• Robert McKim
• Thomas Meighan
• Bull Montana
• Owen Moore
• Nita Naldi
• Pola Negri
• Anna Q. Nilsson
• Charles Ogle
• Guy Oliver
• Jack Pickford
• Mary Pickford
• ZaSu Pitts
• Wallace Reid
• Charles Reisner
• Fritzi Ridgeway
• Dean Riesner
• Will Rogers
• Ford Sterling
• Anita Stewart
• Gloria Swanson
• Estelle Taylor
• Ben Turpin
• Bryant Washburn
• Laurence Wheat
• Lois Wilson

See also

• List of lost films
• Fascinating Youth
• Mary of the Movies
• Show People
• Souls for Sale
• A Trip to Paramountown