Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a number of amiable stars in the audience.Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a number of amiable stars in the audience.Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a number of amiable stars in the audience.
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Charles 'Buddy' Rogers
- 'Buddy' Rogers
- (as Charles ['Buddy'] Rogers and his California Cavaliers)
Sterling Young
- Sterling Young
- (as Sterling Young and his Orchestra)
Monica Bannister
- Girl on Sailboat
- (uncredited)
Bonnie Bannon
- Girl on Sailboat
- (uncredited)
Lynn Bari
- Girl on Sailboat
- (uncredited)
Virginia Bruce
- Virginia Bruce
- (uncredited)
Betty Burgess
- Singer
- (uncredited)
- …
Margaret Carthew
- Girl on Sailboat
- (uncredited)
Diane Cook
- Girl on Sailboat
- (uncredited)
Lili Damita
- Lili Damita
- (uncredited)
Marion Davies
- Marion Davies
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Gene Burdette(uncredited)
- Writers
- Alexander Van Dorn
- Gene Burdette(uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaMarion Davies is introduced as "Queen of the Screen", a title she was given by theater owners as the #1 female box office star of 1922/23.
- Crazy creditswith A Galaxy of Screen Stars
- ConnectionsFeatured in Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story (2002)
- SoundtracksAnchors Aweigh
(uncredited)
Music by Charles A. Zimmerman
Performed on the banjo by Eddie Peabody and 50 banjo players
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Yo ho ho and a glimpse of Flynn
Enchanting short from producer Louis Lewyn, who specialised in star-packed revues such as this one, Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove, Starlit Days at the Lido, all shot in ravishing 3-strip Technicolor in the mid-30s. Here we catch glimpses of Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Errol Flynn, etc, supposedly enjoying the pirate revue outside the St Catherine Hotal on Descanso Beach, Avalon. (I'm sure they were there but revealingly we never see the stars in the same frame as the acts and it's a safe bet that the revue was filmed separately and the star shots blended seamlessly in). It doesn't matter a jot though, it's all hugely enjoyable, with Chester Morris hamming it up as the Pirate Captain, abetted by his motley crew of Leon Errol, Sid Silvers and others whom you feel you should recognize but don't quite.
Nice to see Lee Tracy pop up briefly. This was two years after the notorious incident on the Mexican shoot of Viva Villa which saw him fired from MGM by an incandescent LB Mayer and quickly smuggled back to the US. (Let's just say it involved a hotel balcony, a passing Mexican military parade below, and a jaybird-naked and drunken Lee Tracy answering the urgent call of Nature. Please don't rain on my parade indeed! To sum up, a glimpse of Paradise, Hollywood-style. I give it a resounding 10!
Nice to see Lee Tracy pop up briefly. This was two years after the notorious incident on the Mexican shoot of Viva Villa which saw him fired from MGM by an incandescent LB Mayer and quickly smuggled back to the US. (Let's just say it involved a hotel balcony, a passing Mexican military parade below, and a jaybird-naked and drunken Lee Tracy answering the urgent call of Nature. Please don't rain on my parade indeed! To sum up, a glimpse of Paradise, Hollywood-style. I give it a resounding 10!
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- aldiboronti
- Nov 12, 2010
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- Runtime19 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Pirate Party on Catalina Isle (1935) officially released in Canada in English?
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