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Released May 24, 1934
Featuring Ted Healy and His Stooges
MGM
68.5 min. (Feature Film)

Jimmy Durante's "Schnarzan" movies are losing popularity to a competing studio's "Liondora" (George Givot) series. Hearing that the famous Baron Munchausen is coming to town, complete with lions captured in an African safari, Durante throws a huge Hollywood party in the Baron's honor, hoping to buy the lions for his films. Ted and the Stooges appear as photographers hoping to get photos and autographs of the celebrities attending the party, with a funny scene where three professors argue over the Stooges' proper place in the evolutionary ladder.

HOLLYWOOD PARTY had a troubled production that took 7 months (August 1933 - March 1934), involving reshoots, several Assistant Directors, re-edits, etc. Healy & The Stooges filmed their scene sometime during August - October 1933 (exact date unknown).

In spite of the rivalry between MGM and Disney, Walt Disney accepted Louis B. Mayer's request to supply the film's Technicolor animated sequence "The Chocolate Soldiers," with an introduction by Mickey Mouse voiced by Walt Disney.

Laurel and Hardy costar as the Baron's lion deliverymen; they engage in a hilarious tit-for-tat routine with Lupe Velez.

The Stooges' scene, as well as scenes with Durante and Laurel & Hardy, were reused in the MGM compilation feature MGM'S THE BIG PARADE OF COMEDY (1964).

View the original theatrical trailer at TCM.com

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HOLLYWOOD PARTY on IMDb

Jimmy Durante
Himself / Schnarzan

Lupe Velez
Herself / Jaguar Woman

George Givot
Liondora

Polly Moran
Henrietta Clemp

June Clyde
Linda Clemp

Eddie Quillan
Bob Benson

Richard Carle
Mr. Knapp

Jack Pearl
Baron Munchausen

Jed Prouty
Theatre manager

Edwin Maxwell
Buddy Goldfarb

Ray Cooke
Theatre patron

Arthur Treacher
Valet butler

Frances Williams
Hollywood Party singer

Baldwin Cooke
Hotel doorman

Ben Carter
Hotel elevator operator

Florence Wix
Hotel guest in elevator

Tenen Holtz
Bald man in elevator

Eddie Tamblyn
Bob's friend

Leonid Kinskey
Jake the cabbie

Gene Morgan
Radio MC

Shirley Ross
Feelin' High singer

Harry Barris
Feelin' High singer

The Kings' Men
Feelin' High quartet

Edward Thomas
Butler assisting drunk

Sherry Hall
Butler mixing drinks

Tom Herbert
Bartender

Clarence H. Wilson
Pedant scientist

Ferdinand Gottschalk
Pedant scientist

Nora Cecil
Pedant scientist

Frank Austin
Pedant scientist in conference

Scotty Mattraw
Pedant scientist in conference

Richard Cramer
Pedant scientist in conference

Tom London
Paul Revere

Ben Bard
Charley

Walt Disney
Voice of Mickey Mouse

Don Brodie
Party guest asking Mickey to perform

Art Jarrett
The Hot Choc-Late Soldiers singer

Jack Hill
Doorman

Bert Young
Doorman

Jeanne Olsen Durante
Herself / Mrs. Durante

Bess Flowers
Party guest

Jay Eaton
Party guest

Larry Steers
Party guest

Julia Griffith
Party guest

Jack Byron
Party guest

Russell Hardie
Party guest

Bill Elliott
Party guest

Kay Gordon
Chorine

Greta Garbo
archive footage

Max Baer
Himself, scene deleted

Mary Carlisle
Herself, scene deleted


Harry Rapf
Producer

Howard Dietz
Producer

Louis Lewyn
Producer

Roy Rowland
Director

Charles F. Reisner
Assistant Director

George Stevens
Assistant Director

Allan Dwan
Assistant Director

Russell Mack
Assistant Director

Sam Wood
Assistant Director

Edmund Goulding
Assistant Director

Richard Boleslavsky
Assistant Director

Howard Dietz
Screenplay

Arthur Kober
Screenplay

Herbert Fields
Screenplay

Bert Green
Screenplay

Richy Craig Jr.
Screenplay

Edmund Goulding
Screenplay

Henry Myers
Screenplay

Harvey Gates
Screenplay

James Wong Howe
Photography

George Boemler
Film Editor

Fredric Hope
Art Director

Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration

Douglas Shearer
Recording Director

Walter Donaldson
Original Music

Richard Rodgers
Original Music

Nacio Herb Brown
Original Music

William Axt
Original Music

Jimmy Durante
Original Music

Gus Kahn
Lyrics

W. Donn Hayes
Music Editor

Roy Isnor
Orchestrator

Seymour Felix
Choreographer

Carlos Romero
Choreographer

David Gould
Choreographer

George Hale
Choreographer

Adrian
Costumes

Natalie Kalmus
Technicolor Consultant


















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