Hollywood Speaks is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Edward Buzzell and starring Genevieve Tobin, Pat O'Brien and Leni Stengel. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Synopsis
A despairing young actress is stopped from committing suicide by a gossip columnist who decides to fashion her into a major star.
Cast
Genevieve Tobin as Gertrude Smith, later known as Greta Swan
Pat O'Brien as Jimmy Reed
Lucien Prival as Frederick Landau
Ralf Harolde as Carp
Rita La Roy as Millie Coreen
Leni Stengel as Mrs. Landau
Anderson Lawlor as Joe Hammond
Jack Holt as himself
Production
Columbia announced the film in August 1931.
It was Norman Krasna's first film under his contract with Columbia and he started writing it in April 1932. The same amount the studio announced Eddie Buzzel would direct and Genevieve Tobin would star.
Reception
The Los Angeles Times called it a "routine melodrama with little to say of interest."