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A Hollywood Detour
UNITED STATES · 1942

A Hollywood Detour

Frank Tashlin
Hollywood satire celebrity culture tourist attractions John Barrymore parody slapstick comedy
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Synopsis

This cartoon, featuring a running-gag throughout of a John Barrymore caricature being mobbed by fan for an autograph, is a burlesqued tour of Hollywood. The narrator conducts a tourist tour all around the town of Hollywood Boulvevard, Malibu Beach, Santa Anita Race Track, the Brown Derby, and Grauman's Chinese theatre.

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