Stand-In (1937) is a movie about Hollywood and the film industry starring Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell, and Humphrey Bogart. The picture was directed by Tay Garnett, produced by Walter Wanger, and released by United Artists.
The plot of Stand-In concerns the takeovers of Hollywood studios that occurred during the Great Depression. It opens with a shot of Wall Street and then cuts to a bank, where Fowler Pettypacker (Tully Marshall) is debating wh...
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Stand-In (1937) is a movie about Hollywood and the film industry starring Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell, and Humphrey Bogart. The picture was directed by Tay Garnett, produced by Walter Wanger, and released by United Artists.
The plot of Stand-In concerns the takeovers of Hollywood studios that occurred during the Great Depression. It opens with a shot of Wall Street and then cuts to a bank, where Fowler Pettypacker (Tully Marshall) is debating whether or not to accept an offer from Ivor Nassau (C. Henry Gordon) for "Colossal Pictures", a fictional film studio on Poverty Row. The studio has not been turning a profit, but Atterbury Dodd (Leslie Howard) advises against selling. He stakes his reputation on his mathematical calculations that show Colossal should turn a profit. Petty sends him to Hollywood as the new head of the studio.
Colossal's star actress, Thelma Cheri (Marla Shelton), and eccentric foreign director Koslofski (Alan Mowbray) are deliberately running up costs on producer...
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