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starring: Marion Davies, Bing Crosby, Fifi D'Orsay, Stuart Erwin, Ned Sparksdirected by: Raoul Walsh
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302747270
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6302747279
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: February 24, 1995
Running Time: 78 minutes
Sales Rank: 23366
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: December 22, 1933
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - fine Crosby vehicle
Going Hollywood stars Bing Crosby as Bill 'Billy' Williams, a famous singer and actor bound for Hollywood to make a new movie. Marion Davies does a good job as Sylvia Bruce, a somewhat flighty stalker who follows Bill cross country to Hollywood in the hopes of making him fall in love with her. Look also for great supporting roles from Fifi D'Orsay who plays Lili Yvonne, Bill's current lover and Patsy Kelly as Jill Barker, a nice young woman who takes in Sylvia when Sylvia arrives in California looking ... Read More
Rating: - Mexican Cantina Mystery
Yes, I loved this movie but for reasons that others might have overlooked. The obvious: Bing Crosby's singing! Every scene that Bing graced left me wanting more. He was so young and handsome. The overlooked: The Mexican cantina. The song "Temptation" that he sings to Fifi D'Orsay. The crowded dance floor with the hypnotic dancers moving slowly along. I wish someone would come along and make an entire movie based on that cantina, its inhabitants, and crowded dance floor.
Rating:  - We solved a haunting mystery by watching this movie.
My best friend and I heard "Temptation" on the radio when were little girls. No one my parents ages knew what movie it came from. That song has haunted me for years. Then "That's Entertainment, Part II" came out on DVD and I discovered that "Going Hollywood" was the movie where Bing Crosby sang it. My friend and I watched GH and were pleasantly surprised by the plot (young French teacher follows movie star to Hollywood and joins the cast of a remake of "Cinderella"). Bing Crosby's voice is so smooth, ... Read More
Rating: - Doesn't work, but it's a collectible.
This is rather a generic musical effort for MGM, below par even for the 30's and not nearly as much fun as RKO's "Flying Down To Rio" from the same year. Its major problem is Marion Davies, not to mention dialogue and choreography that's as bland as it is gauche. It's not that Davies doesn't try -- she manages to come through this one with one or two good moments, but her lack of talent makes these seem more like happy accidents. Comedienne Patsy Kelly steals every scene from Davies, and Crosby displays ... Read More
Rating: - An odd but entertaining oldie...
A very weird film, featuring a young (and super-cute!!) Bing Crosby alongside Marion Davies, the uniquely untalented kewpie-doll starlet who William Randolph Hearst backed in flop after flop. It's meant to be a screwball comedy, but reads more like unintentional camp, particularly in any scenes where Davies is called apon to dance, sing or act. Bing plays a crooner gone Hollywood; Davies plays a blonde nutcase who stalks him from coast to coast, insisting that their love was meant to be. Davies's character ... Read More
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