THAT SCREWY, BALLYHOOEY HOLLYWOOD – OLD SETTLERS PARADE 1927

Producer Al Christie (he produced hundreds and hundreds of comedy shorts) and bathing beauties salute old Hollywood.
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Songwriters: WHITING, RICHARD / MERCER, JOHNNY
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Hooray for Hollywood
That screwy, ballyhooey Hollywood
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Where any office boy or young mechanic
Can be a panic, with just a goodlooking pan
Where any barmaid can be a star maid
If she dances with or without a fan


Hooray for Hollywood
Where you’re terrific, if you’re even good
Where anyone at all from TV’s Lassie
To Monroe’s chassis is equally understood
Go out and try your luck, you might be Donald Duck
Hooray for Hollywood
Hooray for Hollywood
That phoney, super coney Hollywood
They come from Chillicothes and Padukahs
With their bazookas to get their names up in lights
All armed with photos from local rotos
With their hair in ribbons and legs in tights
Hooray for Hollywood
You may be homely in your neighborhood
But if you think that you can an actor
See Mr. Factor, he’d make a monkey look good
With a half an hour, you’ll look like Tyrone Power
Hooray for Hollywood

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5 Comments

  1. November 21, 2012

    The girl with the flower headdress is the real personality here. Love IT

    • November 21, 2012

      You’re right. I’ll have to look into that and see if I can discover who she is…

      • November 21, 2012

        She has a rubber faced cuteness but pretty too…like Carol Lombard …kinda

      • November 21, 2012

        Didn’t Carole Lombard work for Mack Sennett? Could it be? I’m on a picture hunt…

      • November 21, 2012

        I think she Did!!

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