Hollywood Bound
Cast & Crew
Betty Grable
Gene Austin
Candy And Coco
Incy, A Dog
Eddie Borden
Bill Augustine
Film Details
Synopsis
In 1927, when Betty Grable, who lives in a home for girls in New York, takes a field trip on a Staten Island ferry, she meets a musical trio led by Gene Austin, which makes its living by performing for the passengers and "passing the hat." After the ferry returns to New York, Betty, an aspiring entertainer, hides in a compartment and does not disembark with the other girls. Instead, she tries to prove her talent to Austin, but he is not interested in making his trio a foursome. Austin soon gains some recognition, while Betty travels across country to Hollywood, procuring food and lodging along the way. In Hollywood, Betty secures some film bit parts, but her career fails to take off. Later, at a party, Betty and some young friends are involved in a scavenger hunt, and Betty is assigned to get nightclub band leader Jimmie Grier's baton. After Betty finally comes up with the baton, she learns that if she had asked, she would have gotten it right away. Some time later. Betty and Walter King appear in an operetta about the utopian society of 1976 when citizens no longer have to work. However, the people, who have numbers instead of names, are tired of playing and revolt, eventually winning the right to work again.
Cast
Betty Grable
Gene Austin
Candy And Coco
Incy, A Dog
Eddie Borden
Bill Augustine
Nora Cecil
Max Wagner
Frank O'connor
Raquel Davido
John Ardizoni
John Murphy
Joe Young
John Millerta
Taylor Twins
Jimmie Grier
The Rhythm Rascals
Joy Hodges
Grady Sutton
Lucille Ball
Jeanie Roberts
Jane Hamilton
Maxine Jennings
Walter King
Otto Fries
Jack Mcguire
Martin Cichy
Bud Fine
Ivor Mcfadden
Robert Graves
Monty Collins
Bill O'donnell
Arthur Thalasso
Franklin Farnum
Nelson Mcdowell
Jack Raymond
Roger Joseph
Crew
Val Burton
John Cass
Newell Chase
Sam Coslow
Henry Creamer
Dan Cutler
Maurice Depackh
Walter Donaldson
Charles R. Dunne
George Ellis
Joseph A. Fields
Bert Gilroy
Alf Goulding
John Grey
Jimmie Grier
J. Roy Hunt
Leigh Jason
Leigh Jason
Will Jason
James P. Johnson
J. Turner Layton
John Lockert
Cecil Mack
Edward Mann
Lee Marcus
Hugh Mcdowell
Hugh Mcdowell
Billy Meyers
Nicholas Musuraca
Ernest Pagano
Jack Pettis
Jack Rieger
Elmer Schoebel
Charles Warfield
Roy Webb
Harold Wenstrom
Sam White
George Whiting
Clarence Williams
Jean Yarbrough
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Hollywood Bound is a compilation of three, two-reel shorts made by Betty Grable early in her career at RKO Radio Pictures: "Ferry-Go-Round" (1934), "A Night at the Biltmore Bowl" (1935) and "The Spirit of 1976" (1935). The compilation was released at a time when Grable was one of the top-ten box office stars. As indicated by a copyright continuity, "A Night at the Biltmore Bowl" features cutaway shots of RKO celebrities attending the nightclub: Preston Foster, Anne Shirley, Bert Wheeler, Pert Kelton, Erik Rhodes and Edgar Kennedy. Hollywood Bound was submitted to the New York State censor board in mid-December 1946. A credit sheet deposited with the board and contained in the NYSA file on the film includes a 1946 copyright registration date, but the title was not found in the Copyright Catalog.
