What Price Hollywood?

Ben Mankiewicz introduces What Price Hollywood?, 1932.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces What Price Hollywood?, 1932.

Opening scenes from director George Cukor and producer David O. Selznick, their early portrait of the movie business, with Constance Bennett, and disembodied cameos from Clark Gable and Greta Garbo, in What Price Hollywood?, 1932.

On the MGM lot, pretty waitress Mary (Constance Bennett) arrives to shoot her bit part for her new customer pal, director Max Carey (Lowell Sherman), in George Cukor's What Price Hollywood?, 1932.

Lowell Sherman (actor turned director, here playing dissolute director "Max Carey") outside the Brown Derby, escorting waitress Mary (Constance Bennett) to his premiere, in George Cukor's What Price Hollywood?, 1932.