Tour guides take visitors on a promotional guide of Warner Brothers' studios.Tour guides take visitors on a promotional guide of Warner Brothers' studios.Tour guides take visitors on a promotional guide of Warner Brothers' studios.
Photos
Robert Arthur
- Tour Guide
- (uncredited)
John Carroll
- Actor in Canoe (clip from "Swingtime in the Movies" (1938))
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Cliff Edwards
- Saloon Singer (clip from "Ride, Cowboy, Ride" (1939))
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Fritz Feld
- Director (clip from "Swingtime in the Movies" (1938))
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Dick Foran
- Singing Cowboy (clip from "Sunday Roundup" (1936))
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Kirby Grant
- Highlander (clip from "Changing of the Guard" (1936))
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Creighton Hale
- Man Taking Tour
- (uncredited)
Gordon Hart
- Highland Officer (clip from "Changing of the Guard" (1936))
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Wanda Hendrix
- Tour Guide
- (uncredited)
Halliwell Hobbes
- Grandfather (clip from "Changing of the Guard" (1936))
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Kathryn Kane
- Actress in Canoe (clip from "Swingtime in the Movies" (1938))
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
- Man in Commissary (clip from "Swingtime in the Movies" (1938))
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Knox Manning
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Dennis Morgan
- Western Hero (clip from 'Ride, Cowboy, Ride' (1939))
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
George O'Hanlon
- Dancing Townsman (clip from "Ride, Cowboy, Ride" (1939))
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Paul Panzer
- Gypsy (clip from "Gypsy Sweetheart" (1935))
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Wini Shaw
- Gypsy (clip from "Gypsy Sweetheart" (1935))
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Glenn Strange
- Singing Cowboy (clip from "Ride, Cowboy, Ride" (1939))
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFeatures musical numbers edited from earlier Warner Bros. Technicolor shorts: "The Blue Danube" from Gypsy Sweetheart (1935), "Drifting on the Rio Grande" from Swingtime in the Movies (1938), "Swinging Through the Kitchen Door" from Swingtime in the Movies (1938), "Annie Laurie" from Changing of the Guard (1936), "Dancing is the Darndest Fun" from Ride, Cowboy, Ride (1939), "Beyond the Open Road" from The Sunday Round-Up (1936).
- ConnectionsFeatured in Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story (2002)
- SoundtracksAn der schönen, blauen Donau (On the Beautiful Blue Danube), Op. 314
(uncredited)
Music by Johann Strauss
Performed by a dance troupe playing violins
From Gypsy Sweetheart (1935)
Featured review
Hollywood Babalu-land
The best thing about this sixteen-minute short is the eye-popping Technicolor. The music is ho-hum and at times downright boring, snipped from Warner Brothers musical shorts of the previous decade. Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards, aka Jiminy Cricket)is pleasing, singing and playing a guitar rather than a ukulele. Cowboy Dick Foran shows why singing shoot-em-up pictures came to be called horse operas. Unlike Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and Tex Ritter, Foran's voice was more suitable for opera than for western ballads. His style was derivative of Nelson Eddy rather than Bing Crosby.
For smirks, there's Clark Gable lookalike John Carroll warbling a song while in a canoe. Carroll turned out to be a much better actor than his reputation would indicate. For movie buffs there's a glimpse of starlet Lauren Bacall as her picture floats across the screen while the narrator emphasizes the importance of photography in the making of a Hollywood film.
Mainly for die-hard fans of 1930's-era popular music, "Hollywood Wonderland" is more like Hollywood Babalu-land.
Footnote: The tour guide is the same Wanda Hendrix who played Pilar in the film noir thriller, "Ride the Pink Horse," the same year.
For smirks, there's Clark Gable lookalike John Carroll warbling a song while in a canoe. Carroll turned out to be a much better actor than his reputation would indicate. For movie buffs there's a glimpse of starlet Lauren Bacall as her picture floats across the screen while the narrator emphasizes the importance of photography in the making of a Hollywood film.
Mainly for die-hard fans of 1930's-era popular music, "Hollywood Wonderland" is more like Hollywood Babalu-land.
Footnote: The tour guide is the same Wanda Hendrix who played Pilar in the film noir thriller, "Ride the Pink Horse," the same year.
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- krorie
- Sep 27, 2006
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- Also known as
- Technicolor Specials (1946-1947 season) #6: Hollywood Wonderland
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- Runtime16 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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