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Director:
Writer:
Erna Lazarus (writer)
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Release Date:
6 December 1956 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
A COAST TO COAST FUN TOOT! (original print ad - all caps) more
Plot:
A singer who can't pay his bookie joins a nerdy, star-struck movie fan and his Great Dane in a cross-country convertible ride to Hollywood. full summary | add synopsis
User Comments:
A very funny satire on Hollywood by Frank Tashlin more (8 total)

Cast

  (in credits order) (verified as complete)

Dean Martin ... Steve Wiley

Jerry Lewis ... Malcolm Smith
Pat Crowley ... Terry Roberts
Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom ... Bookie Benny (as Maxie Rosenbloom)

Anita Ekberg ... Actress Anita
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Valerie Allen ... Bit Role (uncredited)
Adelle August ... Dancer (uncredited)
Drew Cahill ... Photographer (uncredited)
Kathryn Card ... Old Lady (uncredited)
Minta Durfee ... Miss Pettywood (uncredited)

Joe Gray ... Gambler (uncredited)
Sam Harris ... Hotel Extra (uncredited)
Gretchen Houser ... Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
Richard Karlan ... Sammy Ross (uncredited)
Claudia Martin ... 11 Year Old Girl (uncredited)
Deana Martin ... 7 Year Old Girl (uncredited)
Gail Martin ... 9 Year Old Girl (uncredited)
Jack McElroy ... Stupid Sam (uncredited)
Del Moore ... Photographer (uncredited)
Wendell Niles ... Himself - the Emcee (uncredited)
Ralph Peters ... Truck driver who yells "Sunday Driver!' (uncredited)
Suzanne Ridgeway ... Extra at Craps Table (uncredited)
Tracey Roberts ... Redhead (uncredited)
Michael Ross ... Paramount Studio Gate Guard (uncredited)
Jeffrey Sayre ... Crap Table Stickman (uncredited)
Willard Waterman ... Manager Neville (uncredited)
Ben Welden ... Boss (uncredited)
Ross Westlake ... Sheep-haired woman in balcony (uncredited)
Sandra White ... Dancer (uncredited)
Frank Wilcox ... Director (uncredited)
Chief Yowlachie ... Chief Running Water (uncredited)
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Directed by
Frank Tashlin 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Erna Lazarus  writer

Produced by
Paul Nathan .... associate producer
Hal B. Wallis .... producer
 
Cinematography by
Daniel L. Fapp  (as Daniel Fapp)
 
Film Editing by
Howard A. Smith  (as Howard Smith)
 
Art Direction by
Henry Bumstead 
Hal Pereira 
 
Set Decoration by
Fay Babcock  (as Faye Babcock)
Sam Comer 
 
Costume Design by
Edith Head 
 
Makeup Department
Wally Westmore .... makeup supervisor
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
James A. Rosenberger .... assistant director (as James Rosenberger)
William Watson .... second unit director
Gary Nelson .... second assistant director (uncredited)
 
Sound Department
Gene Garvin .... sound recordist
Hugo Grenzbach .... sound recordist
 
Special Effects by
Farciot Edouart .... process photography
John P. Fulton .... special photographic effects
 
Camera and Electrical Department
W. Wallace Kelley .... photographer: second unit (as Wallace Kelley)
Murray Young .... key grip (uncredited)
 
Music Department
Norman Luboff .... music arranger: vocals, "It Looks Like Love", "A Day in the Country", "Let's Be Friendly", "The Wild and Wooly West" and "Hollywood or Bust" (songs titles uncredted)
Charles O'Curran .... musical numbers creator and stager
Walter Scharf .... conductor
Walter Scharf .... music arranger
 
Other crew
Rudy Makoul .... dialogue coach
Richard Mueller .... technicolor color consultant
 
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Beginner's Luck (USA) (original script title)
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Runtime:
95 min
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Language:
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The last film that Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis did together before breaking up as a comedy team. more
Quotes:
Malcolm Smith: Boy, I'm lucky. Do you know when I first found out I was lucky?
Steve Wiley: When?
Malcolm Smith: When I entered the "Send in a Poochy Puff Dog Food jingle for the Poochy Puff Dog Food" jingle contest. You wanna hear how it goes?
Steve Wiley: No, but I will.
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Movie Connections:
References Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) more
Soundtrack:
Hollywood or Bust more

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3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
A very funny satire on Hollywood by Frank Tashlin, 26 December 2002
Author: Kalaman from Ottawa

"Hollywood or Bust" was the last Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin musical comedies and a very good one. Although it is not as bracingly innovative and riotous as Tashlin's "Artists and Models", I kept laughing throughout.

Some hilarious and enjoyable scenes come to mind: The opening moments in the movie theater where Lewis is ruining a woman's hair with popcorn; the rousing musical number "A Day in the Country" (Martin and Lewis in a car) which is Tashlin's homage to the "Beyond the Blue Horizon" number in Lubitsch's 1930 musical "Monte Carlo"; and there is Lewis' imitation of Rudolph Valentino's "Blood and the Sand".

Sure it can be silly and puerile at times, but it's a lot of fun.

Worth seeing.

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