# Hollywood Boulevard (1936 film)

Hollywood Boulevard is a comedy film directed by Robert Florey and released on August 21, 1936, by Paramount Pictures.

## Plot

Has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine publisher Jordan Winston.
When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, asks him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.

## Cast

| Actor/Actress | Role |
| John Halliday | John Blakeford |
| Marsha Hunt | Patricia Blakeford |
| Robert Cummings | Jay Wallace |
| C. Henry Gordon | Jordan Winslow |
| Esther Ralston | Flora Moore |
| Esther Dale | Martha |
| Frieda Inescort | Alice Winslow |
| Albert Conti | Sanford - Trocadero Manager |
| Thomas E. Jackson | Detective |
| Oscar Apfel | Dr. Inslow |
| Purnell Pratt | Mr. Steinman |
| Irving Bacon | Gus - Trocadero Bartender |
| Richard Powell | Pete Moran |
| Rita La Roy | Nella |
| Francis X. Bushman | Director, Desert Scene |
| Maurice Costello | Director |
| Betty Compson | Betty |
| Mae Marsh | Carlotta Blakeford |
| Charles Ray | Charlie Smith, Assistant Director |
| Herbert Rawlinson | Manager of Grauman's |
| Jane Novak | Mrs. Steinman |
| Bryant Washburn | Robert Martin |
| Jack Mulhall | Actor at Trocadero Bar |
| Creighton Hale | Actor at Trocadero Bar |
| Roy D'Arcy | The Sheik |
| Jack Mower | Frank Stucky - Director |
| Frank Mayo | Actor at Trocadero Bar |
| Harry Myers | Actor at Trocadero Bar |
| Mabel Forrest | Mother at Chinese Theatre |
| Tom Kennedy | Bouncer at Pago Pago |
| Pat O'Malley | Pago Pago Patron |
| Lois Kent | Little Girl at Grauman's Chinese Theatre |
| Eleanore Whitney | patron at Grauman's Chinese Theatre |
| Evelyn Brent | Undetermined Role (scenes deleted) |
| Louise Brooks | Undetermined Role (scenes deleted) |
| William Farnum | (scenes deleted) |
| Alice Lake | Undetermined Role (scenes deleted) |
| Florence Lawrence | Undetermined Role (scenes deleted) |
| Harold Lloyd | Harold Lloyd - Cameo Appearance (scenes deleted) |
| Rosemary Theby | Undetermined Role (scenes deleted) |
| Dorothy Wilson | Undetermined Role (scenes deleted) |
| William Bailey | Trocadero Patron (uncredited) |
| Bobby Barber | Man with Gong (uncredited) |
| Edmund Burns | Pago Pago Patron (uncredited) |
| Edward Cecil | Butler (uncredited) |
| Ethel Clayton | Minor role (uncredited) |
| Ruth Clifford | Nurse (uncredited) |
| Gary Cooper | Gary Cooper- Actor at Trocadero Bar (uncredited) |
| Edgar Dearing | Motorcycle Cop (uncredited) |
| William Desmond | Pago Pago Patron (uncredited) |
| Ellen Drew | Terry Ray - Casting Office Secretary (uncredited) |
| Lowell Drew | Doorman at Trocadero (uncredited) |
| Eddie Dunn | Grip (uncredited) |
| Ann Evers | Minor Role (uncredited) |
| Hyman Fink | Snapshot Hymie (uncredited) |
| Jerry Fletcher | Vendor (uncredited) |
| James Ford | Pago Pago Patron (uncredited) |
| Margaret Harrison | Pago Pago Patron (uncredited) |
| Robert Homans | Gray (uncredited) |
| Margaret Mann | Woman in Casting Office (uncredited) |
| Marshall Neilan | Cinegrill Customer (uncredited) |

## Production

The casting was announced in June 1936. Many former silent era actors had small roles.

## Reception

Frank Nugent of The New York Times was critical of the film: "It is, as you may judge, a pretty hoary melodrama and [a] slight enough excuse for a whole series of homilies upon the uncertainty of fame and fortune in the glamour city."