- Title: V-6950
- Summary: HOLLYWOOD REEL: EXCLUSIVE BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK AT HOLLYWOOD FILM INDUSTRY AND THE STARS, STUNT MEN, CIRCA 1950. ALL SHOT IN LOS ANGELES AND HOLLYWOOD.
- Description:00:25:18 - "AT HOME". CU SIGN: "ENCINO" A SUBURB OF HOLLYWOOD PALATIAL RANCH HOME OF BEAUTIFUL RED HAIRED TEXAN, ACTRESS ANNE SHERIDAN WHO GOT TO HOLLYWOOD BY WAY OF BEAUTY CONTEST ANNE EXITS HOME, IS MET BY HER PET BOXER DOG "DON". SHE LEANS OVER TO PETS HIM. 00:25:51 - CU ANNE PICKS AN ORANGE OFF TREE ON HER PROPERTY. ANNE TOURS HER RANCH WITH "DON", INCLUDING THE SWIMMING POOL AREA. BORN IN SMALL TOWN OF DENTON TEXAS, AND WAS STUDYING TO BE A TEACHER WHEN SHE ENTERED BEAUTY CONTEST. THE PRIZE WAS HOLLYWOOD CONTRACT. SHE WAS BALLYHOOED AS THE "OOMPH" GIRL WHEN SHE MOVED FROM PARAMOUNT TO WARNER STUDIOS, A TITLE SHE WORKED HARD TO LIVE DOWN. 00:26:49 - ANNE FEEDS HER CHICKENS, PETS ONE OF HER TWO COWS. CU FACE SHOT ANNE SHERIDAN SMILING INTO CAMERA. 00:27:21 - "ON THE BOULEVARD". CU STREET SIGN AT HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD AND CHEROKEE, PAN TO JACK MULHOLLOW WALKING ON SIDEWALK TOWARDS CAMERA IS MET BY ELDERLY NEWSBOY WHO REMEMBERS WHEN MULLHOLLOW WAS ONE OF HOLLYWOOD'S BRIGHTEST STARS. 00:27:47 - CU SMILING MULLHOLLOW STOPS TO CHAT WITH NEWSBOY, PAYS FOR NEWSPAPER AS THEY CHAT ON STREET CORNER. MULHOLLOW IS IN TELEVISION NOW AFTER PLAYING A BIG PART IN KEN MURRAY'S SHOW "HOLLYWOOD BLACKOUT". JACK MADE MOVIE HISTORY STARRING WITH DOROTHY MCHALE IN THE EARLY THIRTIES. 00:27:56 - CU JACK LIGHTS UP HIS AND NEWSBOY'S CIGARETTE AS THEY CHAT. 00:28:19 - "BEHIND THE SCENES". "THE STORY OF WIGS". CU STREET SIGNS: "HOLLYWOOD BLVD. 6700 W." AND "HIGHLAND AVE. 1700 N." 00:28:21 - ON CORNER OF THESE TWO STREET IS "MAX FACTOR" BUILDING, HOME OF GLAMOUR AND WIGS. 00:28:32 - PAN ROWS OF SHELVES FILLED WITH WOODEN HEAD FORMS OF ALL SIZES. VARIOUS SCENES FEMALE TECHNICIAN SHOWING HOW WIG IS MADE AND TAILORED TO SIZE ON THE WOODEN BLOCK. 00:29:28 - CU FEMALE TECHNICIAN NAILS PIECE OF LACE TO WOODEN BLOCK THEN SEWS THOUSANDS OF INDIVIDUAL REAL HAIRS, MOSTLY IMPORTED FROM EUROPE, ONE-A-TIME TO BLOCK UNTIL A FULL HEAD OF HAIR IS FORMED. 00:29:57 - CU SKILLED BEAUTICIAN IN BEAUTY PARLOR DEPARTMENT BRUSHES A BLOND WIG INTO WAVY HAIR STYLE. 00:30:28 - LOVELY BRUNETTE CATHLINE KELLY IS FITTED WITH BLOND WIG BY BEAUTICIAN. CU KELLY WITH NEW LOOK. 00:31:04 - "HAVIN' FUN". VARIOUS SCENES MOVIE ACTRESS COLEEN GRAY WITH FOUR YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER SUZIE, MAKING TAPE RECORDINGS ON EQUIPMENT ON BACK LAWN OF HOME. 00:31:05 - LITTLE SIZIE SPRINGING UP AND DOWN ON ROCKING HORSE ON LAWN. 00:31:32 - COLEEN WHO IS GOING TO EUROPE TO STAR IN MOVIE WITH GEORGE RAFT TITLED, "I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS", SITS SUZIE ON LAP, DOES TAPE RECORDING OF HER OWN VOICE, SO DAUGHTER WILL HEAR HER MOTHER'S VOICE EVERY DAY WHEN COLEEN IS AWAY. 00:31:43 - CU FACE SHOT OF COLEEN GRAY IN FRONT OF MICROPHONE. 00:32:42 - WITH HER MOTHER IN EUROPE, YOUNG SUZIE SITS IN FRONT OF TAPE RECORDER LISTENING TO HER MOTHERS VOICE. VOICE OF COLEEN TELLING STORIES OF "BILLY MINK", IS HEARD AS CHILD LISTENS. 00:33:24 - "CLOSE UPS AND LONG SHOTS". MORE STUNTS BY STUNT MAN, COWBOY CAL PERRY AND HIS ARABIAN HORSE "WARRIOR" *Note: (See V-6948, 00 03 16 FOR MORE). 00:33:43 - CAL TWIRLS ROPE OVER HEAD AS HORSE SLOWLY LIES DOWN ON SIDE PAN FROM HORSE ON GROUND TO CAL STANDING ON "WARRIOR'S" RUMP TWIRLING ROPE. 00:34:27 - "WARRIOR" GETS OFF GROUND, STANDS WITH CAL IN SADDLE, TWIRLING. CAL DOES SEVERAL ROPE TRICKS INCLUDING LASSOING HIS FATHER, FORMER RODEO STAR BEN PETTY, RIDING TOWARDS CAMERA ON HORSE. 00:35:09 - CAL GUIDES "WARRIOR" ONTO NARROW PLANK, SLOWLY WALKS HORSE ACROSS. WARRIOR TAKES A BOW.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1949
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: V-6950