Title:Once In A Lifetime

Date: 1932
Type: Comedy / Drama
Rating: 3/5
Colour: Black and White
Director: Russell Mack
Producer: Carl Laemmie Jr


Comment
Three vaudeville stars realise that their work has been replaced by talking pictures. They head out to Hollywood to run an elocution school for silent actors moving in to talking pictures. The least bright of the three tells the studio boss some home truths and gets put in charge of the next film which is badly made as well as the wrong film but becomes a big hit. This is based on a stage play and hence is very static and wordy, but is a good comic swipe on the absurdity and excess of 1930's Hollywood.
Actors
Jack Oakie
Aline MacMahon
Russell Hopton
Sidney Fox
Zasu Pitts
Louise Fazenda
Gregory Ratoff
Jobyna Howland
Onslow Stevens
Oscars
None