Word: stand-in
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...Stand-in (Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart...
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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...
...slips under a table in the Biltmore. When the bank sells the studio over his head and fires him, he organizes studio employes to defy the new owner, throws Nassau out with a 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...