Going Hollywood
Going Hollywood is a 1933 American PreCode musical film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Marion Davies and Bing Crosby. It was written by Donald Ogden Stewart and based on a story by Frances Marion. Going Hollywood was released by MetroGoldwynMayer on December 22, 1933.
Crosby recorded the songs for Brunswick Records and Temptation, Well Make Hay While the Sun Shines and Beautiful Girl reached the charts of the day peaking at Nos. 3,andrespectively.The New York Times welcomed the film. Blended properly with the holiday humors, Going Hollywood has enough basic liveliness to produce a sprightly and jocular mood at the Capitol. The overwhelming magnitude of the latterday musical picture is gratefully absent from this one. It is warm, modest and goodhumored. Bing Crosby has a manner and a voice, both pleasant, and the songs that Nacio Brown and Arthur Freed provide have a tinkle and a lilt. From the competent routine sentiments of Our Big Love Scene and the pleasing little pastoral lyric Well Make Love When It Rains they range down to that brooding song which Mr. Crosby, loaded with whisky and sorrow, sings across a Mexican bar while the glamorous Miss Davies is far away. Varietys reaction was mixed as they commented Pretentious musical with class in every department but one. It has names, girls and good music, but its story is weak from hunger and the script will prevent a big click. Fair is its rating...Marion Davies is starred and Bing Crosby featured, but Crosby will draw the bulk of what this one gets. Other assets are the music, the fact that its good, and that it has girls and plenty of them . . . From start to finish Crosby is constantly singing. It must be good singing because it doesnt get tiresome, despite that its laid on so heavy. . . . At least three songs in the generally excellent score, as played by Lennie Haytons orchestra, sound promising. With Crosby there to sing em the songs get a break, too. ........
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