Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stand-in Lester Plum (Joan Blondell) explains her functions to Atterbury Dodd (Leslie Howard), eastern efficiency expert who has come to Colossal studios as stand-in for a bank. Atterbury thinks of picture-making in terms of arithmetic and of picturemakers in terms of cogs and units. At first he occupies a suite in orchid and pale fudge in a famed hotel, but is driven by job-seekers and backslappers to refuge in the boarding house where Miss Plum lives with various cinema people who differ from the successes only in not having jobs. Gradually it dawns on Atterbury that...
...jujitsu hold, saves Cheri's last picture by having it recut to star a gorilla. Stand-in is the most human as well as the most biting comedy yet written about Hollywood. After its preview, violent protests were made by rival organizations. Twentieth Century-Fox felt uneasiness because Joan Blondell burlesques Shirley Temple singing "The Good Ship Lolly-pop." Report had it that the character of Director Koslofski was a damaging caricature of Josef von Sternberg. Trade papers tittered that Stand-In laughed at the motion picture industry. The last is true, but the laughter is large, warming...
Special credit should be given to Joan Davis, a girl orchestra leader, who does two fine comedy song and dance bits. Arthur Treacher plays his usual capable valet role...
Errol Flynn, God's gift to this puny human race, displays how the perfect man should disport himself when caught between the realism of a woman's world and the idealism of a life of complete social vapidity. Pursued by Joan Blondell, who is not over-subtle in her go-getting, Mr. Flynn knocks out Allan Jenkins, prize fighter extraordinary, fights in his place, and pursues his inconsequential way through the rest of the film...
...clothes off.* In this picture he labors under the screen name of Gerald Beresford Wicks, who has been schooled in all the arts and sciences by a bossy grandmother (May Robson), to fit him for the Wicks fame & fortune. His planned life gets out of hand when Mona Carter (Joan Blondell) crashes her car through the Wickstead fence, discovers the perfect specimen testing a Newtonian theory by falling out of a tree. With very little urging, Gerald reacts like a perfectly normal and admirably coordinated human. He pursues Mona, impresses her by flattening a tough guy (Allen Jenkins), wins another...