- Country: USA
- Genres: Western
- Release: 1937-11-06
- Director: Ewing Scott
- Writers: Charles Ellis , Monroe Shaff , Ethel La Blanche
- Language: English
- Stars: Buck Jones , Helen Twelvetrees , Grant Withers , Shemp Howard
- Runtime: 54 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Hollywood Round-Up , Ídolos de Barro (Brazil) , Cowboyhjälten (Sweden) , Hollywood Round-Up (United States of America) , Hollywood Roundup (United States of America)
- Plot: One of three films made by Columbia circa 1936-37 based on behind-the-scenes film making with a "western" setting ("The Cowboy Star", "Hollywood Round-up" and "It Happened in Hollywood"), plus RKO weighed in the same year with George O'Brien's "Hollywood Cowboy." It had been done before, RKO's 1933 "Scarlet River", and would be done again, "Shooting High" from 20th Century-Fox and Republic's "Bells of Rosarita", among others with a western setting, but this Coronet production with Buck Jones may well be the best of the lot as it devotes more footage to actual film-making both on studio sets and locations. One out-of-the norm plot incident has the studio head Lew Wallace offering a job to a fading star Carol Stevens, with a semi-apology for casting her in what he calls an "outdoor special" and she calls a "horse opry", and this scene in a B-western leaves no doubt that the B-western and it people were near the bottom of Hollywood's pecking order. The stereotypes are there, with Shemp Howard's over-zealous "assistant director" (who does calm down and gets more real when he loses his whistle), the ego-ridden "star" in Grant Drexel, and the deserving-to-be-the-star relegated to stand-in and stunts Buck Kennedy, but the remaining crew and player roles are realistic (especially the real stuntmen playing stuntmen). Buck Kennedy is the stand-in and double for star Grant Drexel and is fired when he has a fight with the bullying Drexel over Drexel's treatment of leading lady Carol Stephens. The movie company is on location, and a group of gangsters led by Eddie Kane and Lester Dorr, posing as another movie company, come to the location town and talk the banker into letting them film a fake holdup in his bank, but the holdup is real and the out-of-work Buck, whom they hire as the fall guy to cover their getaway, is left holding the bag and jailed by town sheriff Slim Whitaker. Things get worse for Buck before they get better. A mid-point sequence has hotel clerk George R. Beranger, who dreams of being a western star, performing a twittering, ballet-slippering audition for the checking-in film company by quoting lines from a western and asking them to identify the film. Shemp Howard guesses "Little Women."
- IMDB:tt0029011
Hollywood Round-Up Cast · · · ALL
Ewing Scott
Director
Buck Jones
Buck Kennedy
Helen Twelvetrees
Carol Stevens
Grant Withers
Grant Drexel
Shemp Howard
Oscar Bush
Dickie Jones
Dickie Stevens
Eddie Kane
Henry Wescott
Monte Collins
Freddie Foster
Warren Jackson
Perry King
Lester Dorr
Louis Lawson
Lee Shumway
Dunning
Edward Keane
Lew Wallace
George Beranger
Hotel Clerk
Steve Clark
Deputy
Roger Daniel
George DeNormand
(1903–1976)
Saloon Brawler
Frank Ellis
Saloon Set Extra
Donald Kerr
Movie Set Crewman
Johnny Luther
Presentation Musician
Cliff Lyons
Saloon Set Brawler
William McCall
Saloon Set Extra
Merrill McCormick
Saloon Set Extra
Bill Patton
Jail Deputy
George Plues
Saloon Brawler
Catherine Sanford
Harry Semels
Tony Papalini