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Stand-In (1937)

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Release Date: Oct 29, 1937 Wide

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Bookish bank employee Atterbury Dodd (Leslie Howard) is ordered to investigate the near-bankrupt Colossal Studios in Hollywood, to see if the firm is any sort of good risk. Dodd's first brush with Tinseltown's cuckoo atmosphere occurs when he takes a room in a boarding house for extras, where all manner of eccentrics wander about as they wait for the phone to ring (Charles Middleton comports himself in an Abe Lincoln costume, on the off-chance that Hollywood will go back to making Civil War

Unrated, 1 hr. 31 min.

Comedy, Romance

Directed By: Tay Garnett

In Theaters: Oct 29, 1937 Wide

On DVD: Jan 28, 2003

Cast

Leslie Howard
Atterbury Dodd
Joan Blondell
Lester Plum
Humphrey Bogart
Douglas Quintain
Alan Mowbray
Koslofski
Marla Shelton
Thelma Cheri
Jack Carson
Potts
C. Henry Gordon
Ivor Nassau
J.C. Nugent
Pennypacker Jr.
Tully Marshall
Pennypacker Sr.
William V. Mong
Pennypacker

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Clever, overlooked Hollywood satire from the quirky Tay Garnett.

March 18, 2003 Comment

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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a sweet satire of the movie industry. leslie howard plays a strait-laced accountant sent in to cut costs at colossal studios, only to discover not everything is reducible to a balance sheet. humphrey bogart, in only his second film role, plays a drunken producer, and joan blondell, stand-in for the studio's diva, is

August 25, 2011

Stella Dallas

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The cast makes this one work so well, Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart and Joan Blondell are all terrific. Good story, snappy pace and professionally made. Fun and entertaining.

October 3, 2007