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Summary:
This Marion Davies vehicle was loosely inspired by the career of Gloria Swanson. Davies plays would-be starlet Peggy Pepper, who arrives at the gates of MGM Studios with her dad Colonel Pepper (Dell Henderson) in hopes of becoming a great dramatic actress. Instead, she a scores a hit as an ingenue in the slapstick comedies starring the effervescent Billy Boone (William Hain... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Marion Davies - (Peggy Pepper)
William Haines - (Billy Boone)
Dell Henderson - (Col. Pepper)
Paul Ralli - (Andre Telefair)
Tenen Holtz - (Casting director)
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Review:
Although newspaper magnate and sometime film producer William Randolph Hearst generally liked to put his mistress, the lovely Marion Davies, in overproduced costume dramas, he enthusiastically embraced the idea of turning the stage comedy +Polly Preferred into a satire about Hollywood stardom, and using it as a Davies vehicle. Hearst ... Continue >>
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