Mr. Dodd is going to Hollywood

Movie
German title	Mr. Dodd is going to Hollywood
Original title	Stand-in
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1937
length	96 minutes
Rod
Director	Tay Garnett
script	Gene Towne , C. Graham Baker
production	Walter Wanger
music	Jimmy McHugh , Heinz Roemheld
camera	Charles G. Clarke
cut	Alexander Toluboff
occupation
Leslie Howard : Atterbury Dodd Joan Blondell : Lester Plum Humphrey Bogart : Doug Quintain Alan Mowbray : Koslofski Marla Shelton : Thelma Cheri C. Henry Gordon : Ivor Nassau Jack Carson : Tom Potts Tully Marshall : Fowler Pettypacker JC Nugent : Junior Pettypacker William V. Mong : Cyrus Pettypacker

Mr. Dodd Goes to Hollywood (Original Title: Stand-In ) is a 1937 American comedy film starring Leslie Howard , Joan Blondell and Humphrey Bogart , based on the novel Stand-In by Clarence Budington Kelland .

action

The action takes place during the Great Depression , when there were many acquisitions of Hollywood studios. Fowler Pettypacker is a Wall Street banker wondering whether or not to accept an offer from Ivor Nassau to buy the Colossal Pictures studio. The studio has not made a profit, and Treasury Officer Atterbury Dodd advises against the sale. However, Dodd trusts his calculations that Colossal should be making a profit. So the bank sends Dodd to Hollywood as the new head of the studio.

The leading actress Thelma Cheri, the eccentric foreign director Koslofski and the press agent Tom Potts conspire with Nassau to sabotage the studio. They deliberately increase the price of the jungle film Sex and Satan by producer Douglas Quintain, so that the film flops and the studio goes bankrupt.

In Hollywood, Dodd meets cheerful former child star Lester Plum, who is currently working as a double for Cheri. Lester teaches Dodd about the business of filmmaking and becomes his secretary. Under Lester's direction, Dodd decides that workers are more than just numbers. Lester falls in love with Dodd, but initially doesn't recognize her feelings.

When Dodd is unfazed by the implementation of Sex and Satan , Koslofski blames Quintain. Quintain had discovered Cheri and made her a star, falling in love with her in the process, but she also had feelings for Koslofski. As a result, Dodd fires Quintain. After a pre-audience confirms the film is terrible, Dodd visits the inconsolable producer. As soon as he's sober, Quintain comes up with the idea of ​​saving the film by reducing Cheri's part and expanding that of the good-for-nothing. Before they can do that, however, Pettypacker calls Dodd and informs him that he has sold the studio to Nassau and that Dodd will be fired. Dodd convinces the initially hostile workers to support him in ending the film. Then he asks Lester Plum to marry him.

Box office income and publication

The film grossed a total of $ 9,274. In Germany, the film was shown for the first time in 1994 by ARD, synchronized with the voices of Reinhard Glemnitz for Howard and Frank Engelhardt for Bogart. In 2015, Filmjuwelen / Fernsehjuwelen released a DVD in the German language version.

criticism

The lexicon of international films judged that the first part of the film in particular was a “light-footed satire on Hollywood filmmakers, who throws an amusing and warm-hearted look behind the scenes and, not least, lives from the coherent ensemble performance of the actors”.

swell

• Matthew Bernstein: Walter Wagner: Hollywood Independent , Minnesota Press, 2000.

Web links

• Mr. Dodd went to Hollywood in theInternet Movie Database(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German synchronous index | Movies | Mr. Dodd is going to Hollywood. Retrieved October 4, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Mr. Dodd goes to Hollywood (DVD) - jpc. Retrieved October 4, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Mr. Dodd is going to Hollywood. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 7, 2019 .