Citizens of Hollywood

**The Citizens of Hollywood** or **Streetmosphere** is an attraction of live-performers in Disney's Hollywood Studios, based in Hollywood Boulevard, Sunset Boulevard, and the entrance to Echo Lake. They are the only live performed, "Meet 'n' Greet" characters consistently found in Sunset Boulevard.

## History

### Backstory

The show revolves around citizens of Hollywood in its golden age (identified by characters as the year 1947) who interact with guests.

## Summary

### Characters

* **Ace Victory**:
* **Alberto Dante**: An often imitated but never nominated film director.
* **Betty Shambles**:
* **Beau Wrangler**: A cowboy movie star
* **Buddy Flowers**:
* **Chef Ben Appetit**: A caterer to the stars.
* **Chloe Canard**: Chloe Canard was Hollywood's gossip columnist and the president of, "The Society of Refined and Sophisticated Palettes".
* **Cynthia Bloom**: An actress known as, "Hollywood's full bouquet of talent"
* **Dara Vamp**:
* **Dorma Nesmond**: A former silent-film actress who is the self-proclaimed, "greatest movie star in the universe".
* **Evie Starlight**: Evie Starlight was a ditzy and unintelligent but beautiful blonde Hollywood starlet.
* **Flora Fierra**: Flora Fierra was a hispanic actress known as, "The Fiery Queen of the Silver Screen".
* **Ginny Vermouth**:
* **Jack Diamond**: Jack Diamond is a talent-agent identified with the phrase, “If you haven’t become famous in Hollywood, it’s because you don’t know Jack!”. Jack has a love for playing-card games and card-tricks.
* **Juan Scenario**: A screenwriter
* **Oscar Meyerwiener**: A film director.
* **Mimi Kaboom**: A leading lady and, "oh-so-dramatic wannabe".
* **Montgomery Dash**: A movie star
* **Officer Pat Friskem**:
* **Officer Percival Peabody**: Percival P. Peabody was a police-officer active in Hollywood in the late 1940s, described as part of the, "Hollywood Police Department". He was a cautious-minded officer primarily focused on traffic-regulations.
* **Officer Prime Brody**:
* **Paige Turner**:
* **Phoebe Bizarre**: Phoebe Bizarre was a black actress typecast in femme-fatale roles.
* **"Ready" Freddy Fiddlesticks**: An aspiring actor aiming to be Hollywood's next big star.
* **Rena Nevada**: A cowgirl actress.
* **Rosie the Cleaning Lady**: Rosie is an overly confident and overdone, "Cleaning Lady to the Stars" who claims to be a Marilyn Monroe look-alike.
* **Shelby Mayor**: Shelby Mayor was the wealthiest man in Hollywood.
* **Sonny Burbank**: The mayor of Los Angeles.
* **Stone Granite**: Stone Granite was a male movie-star who frequently made bad jokes and puns (often rock based).
* **Tallulah Frutti**:
* **Vladimir Pooey**: A chatty film-director.
* **Officer William Club**:
* **Wink Wright**: A movie critic.

### Shows

* Good Morning Hollywood on the corner of Hollywood and Vine
* The Funniest Citizen of Hollywood competition (also known as 99)
* The Hollywood Matchmaker game
* The Red Carpet Radio Cavalcade
* A magic trick table
* The Hollywood Hot Seat

## Tower of Terror connections

### Buena Vista Street

Officer Percival Peabody's mailbox is on Buena Vista Street.

### The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

These characters exist within the fictionalized depiction of Hollywood also used for the Hollywood Tower Hotel. Sometimes, the characters wait at the unload area for the Tower of Terror.

## Trivia

* A similar attraction in *Disney California Adventure* is *Citizens of Buena Vista Street* with character Calvin Blue even being part of the Hollywood Tower Hotel's backstory.
* Some characters have jokes or easter-eggs hidden in their names:
	+ Dorma Nesmond is a play on the character of Norma Desmond from the 1950 film *Sunset Boulevard*.
	+ The cops have pun names with William Club being, "Billy Club", and Pat Friskem referencing pat-downs and frisking.
	+ Jack Diamond's name references his love for playing-card games.
* The logo for, "Hollywood Public Works" featured depictions of the Chinese Theatre, Earffel Tower, and the Hollywood Studios' entrance. The Earffel Tower was removed in 2016 for the construction of Toy Story Land.

## References

1. ↑ https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2019/12/citizens-of-hollywood-taste-test-festive-favorites/
2. ↑ https://allears.net/2013/01/02/officer-peabody-citizen-of-hollywood/
3. ↑ https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/11/the-citizens-of-hollywood-star-power-live-and-in-person/
4. ↑ https://duchessofdisneyland.com/california-adventure/buena-vista-street-mailboxes/