Three against Hollywood
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Three against Hollywood |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 100 minutes |
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| Director | Sigi Rothemund |
| script | Moss Hart , George S. Kaufman |
| production | TV60Filmproduktion , Bernd Burgemeister |
| camera | Klaus Günther , Karl-Heinz Fischer, Klaus Kühbandner , Eberhard Rödl , Thomas Rogge |
| cut | Frigga Heider , Stephan Henne |
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Drei gegen Hollywood is a German television comedy directed by Sigi Rothemund from 1982. The film is based on the theater play Once in a Lifetime by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman from 1930, which was filmed once in 1932. Motifs from the play can also be found in the classic film You should be my lucky star (Singin 'in the Rain) from 1952.
action
Main storyline
The film is about the three variety actors May Daniels, Jerry Hyland and Dr. George Lewis, who had little success with their small theaters in the 1930s. By a newspaper article they learn that in Hollywood just the generation of sound film dawns. They recognize in this their great opportunity to be able to get into show business after all. They suspect the silent movie stars cannot speak properly. You are therefore planning to open a language school for Hollywood stars. The new business idea takes the three protagonists to the film studios in Hollywood, where the first sound films are being shot. On the train to Hollywood, the three meet the columnist Helen Hobart and the young, naive young actress Susan Walker, who stands out because of her speech impediment. Arriving in Hollywood, they meet various people from the film business, including the constantly annoyed studio manager Hermann Glogauer, the desperate director Meterstein, the secretary Miss Leighton and the actress Phyllis Fontane, who is actually unsuitable for talkies due to her screeching voice. Since the studio manager Glogauer almost despaired of Phyllis Fontanes' voice, he liked the idea of the language school. He offers the three newcomers the opportunity to open their school.
After initially moderate success, of all people, the naive and clumsy Dr. Lewis more and more influence in the film business. He is constantly giving newspaper quotes out of context and making obvious wrong decisions that after a short time turn out to be a stroke of luck. For example, he has the wrong script filmed. Instead of the film The Whale of Nottre Dame , the Cleopatra film The Day the Sphinx Wept will be filmed with the untalented actress Susan Walker in the lead role. He is then initially fired by Hermann Glogauer. In the cinemas, however, this film becomes a box-office hit because it is viewed by critics as a comedy. For the film War in the Clouds he bought 500 planes for the shooting, and almost ruined Hermann Glogauer. Later it turns out that the other studios also want to make aviator films, but there are no more planes to buy on the market. They offer Hermann Glogauer large sums for his aircraft.
May Daniels and Jerry Hyland struggle with their own problems. While May tries to run the language school, Jerry feels more and more drawn to Phyllis Fontane, whose fan he was even before he arrived in Hollywood. As a result, he conjures up May's displeasure and there are numerous discussions between the two.
Subplots
In the course of the action there are some subplots that run like a red thread through the whole film.
- Lawrence Vail, a screenwriter employed by the Glogauer Studios, tries to get an appointment with Hermann Glogauer in the reception hall, but is repeatedly rejected by the secretary Miss Leighton, so that he later leaves the studio, exasperated. As he storms out, he knocks over a bellboy who is just entering the entrance hall with a sign. On the sign, which he no longer reads, there is the message that Hermann Glogauer is now on his way to see him. Later he meets May Daniels on the train, who is traveling home, and tells her about a stay in a mental hospital. There he was cured of the trauma surrounding Hermann Glogauer.
- When entering the entrance hall, supporting characters urge Hermann Glogauer to check out their acting skills. They also speak other characters, such as B. to the piano player whether they can bring them into the film business.
- Columnist Helen Hobart regularly publishes new columns and comments retrospectively on events in Hollywood and in the Glogauer studios.
background
The film was produced on behalf of ZDF . The film was shot in the television studios in Unterföhring near Munich. The first broadcast on ZDF took place on February 20, 1982 in the course of the introduction of two-channel sound on German television.
Web links
- Three against Hollywood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Three against Hollywood at filmportal.de
- Three against Hollywood in the German Broadcasting Archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Three against Hollywood in the German Broadcasting Archive
- ↑ Once in a Lifetime in the Internet Broadway Database, accessed February 1, 2016
- ↑ Once in a Lifetime. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
- ↑ “We switch to” episode 10: “You're not David!” - The legendary multi-channel audio test broadcast ( Memento from August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Wishlist.de.