Windy Riley Goes Hollywood

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Windy Riley Goes Hollywood

1931

0h 18m

5.8(4 votes)

Comedy

Overview

A driver on a non-stop race from New York to San Francisco gets detoured to Hollywood, where he winds up working as a publicity man for a movie studio and assigned to revive the career of a beautiful but fading star.

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7 featured cast members

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Louise Brooks

Betty Grey

Jack Shutta

Windy Riley

William B. Davidson

Wilbur Mack

Dell Henderson

Walter Merrill

E.H. Allen

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Directed by: Roscoe Arbuckle
Written by: Ernest Pagano
Jack Townley
Produced by: Jack White

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