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What Price Hollywood?
UNITED STATES · 1932

What Price Hollywood?

George Cukor
Hollywood ambition rise and fall mentor-protégé relationship alcoholism showbiz corruption
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Synopsis

Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.

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