Rosemary Lane

A newspaper columnist and radio host delves into Hollywood's hectic nightlife in search of a captivating story and finds it at the Trocadero.

If you love music, check into Hollywood Hotel. The story's about a filmland newbie (Dick Powell) caught between a spoiled star (Lola Lane) and her likeable look-alike (Lola's look-alike sister Rosemary Lane). But the movie's about Busby Berkeley's ace direction – and music, music, music. The film opens with the jubilant debut of Tinseltown's unofficial anthem Hooray for Hollywood. The jaunty Let That Be a Lesson to You shows off Berkeley's snazzy-jazzy mastery of editing and camera angles. And Benny Goodman and His Orchestra – including Harry James on trumpet and Gene Krupa on drums – swing, swing, swing into Sing, Sing, Sing. Hooray for Hollywood Hotel!

In a bizarre but fascinating bit of casting, Humphrey Bogart stars as a vampire in his only horror film role. After a murderous doctor is executed, he is revived with human blood--and soon people with that blood type begin to disappear. When an eager reporter stumbles across a popular actress who was thought to be dead, he can't help noticing that her skin is unnaturally pale and that she keeps her face concealed beneath a long black veil. Suspecting that evil is afoot, he investigates the terrifying world of a psychotic doctor (Bogart) and is drawn into a series of unsolved murders.

The City of Lights will never be the same when the girls and the gangsters land on the continent. It's gams galore with the Gold Diggers in Paris! Rudy Vallee stars as Terry Moore, a nightclub owner on the verge of bankruptcy. When a mistaken taxi driver stops at his Club Ballé to pick up the dancers due at a European Ballet competition, Moore sees the prize as the chance to save his club. His sexy-if-untrained chorus girls undergo a crash course in classical ballet during the crossing to France. Moore falls for the only true ballet dancer he could find on short notice. And the ballet director whose corps should be competing hires a gangster to hobble the sexy chorines. Now, who will win the battle between the chorus girls and the ballerinas?

Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney star as two men on opposite sides of the law--the villainous Whip McCord and the man who's come to clean up the town, The Oklahoma Kid.

A musician is blessed with four musical prodigies, all girls, and cursed when a troubled young composer enters the lives of his Four Daughters.