Hollywood Cavalcade

Hollywood Cavalcade
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Directed byIrving Cummings
Screenplay byErnest Pascal
Story byHilary Lynn
Brown Holmes
Produced byDarryl F. Zanuck
StarringAlice Faye
Don Ameche
J. Edward Bromberg
Alan Curtis
CinematographyAllen M. Davey
Ernest Palmer
Edited byWalter Thompson
Music byCyril J. Mockridge
Production
company
20th Century Fox
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • October 13, 1939 (1939-10-13)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Hollywood Cavalcade is a 1939 American film featuring Alice Faye as a young performer making her way in the early days of Hollywood, from slapstick silent pictures through the transition from silent to sound.

Famous directors and actors from the silent film era appear in the picture including Mack Sennett, Buster Keaton, Chester Conklin and Ben Turpin.[1]

  1. ^ Dwyer, 1996 p. 42: Keaton was cast as himself in the film, as is Mack Sennett. And p. 229-230: Filmography