''Night Life in Hollywood'', called ''The Shriek of Hollywood'' in Europe, is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by

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. It starred

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, and featured a number of cameo appearances of celebrities with their families. In 1922, Ada Bell Maescher organized the De Luxe Film Company to produce the propaganda picture, which would show the "real" living conditions in the film capital. Instead of depicting Hollywood as a lurid, sensual Babylon, with its reported debauches of depravity and wickedness, it was shown as a model city, beautiful and attractive, and populated with home-loving people. The film is preserved, but incomplete, as reel 2 is lost.

Plot

Joe Powell (Glendon) runs away from his small town in

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to visit

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, anticipating debauchery. After his sister Carrie Powell (Henry) heads there too, their father (McComer), mother (Rhodes), and younger sister follow them out there. Once the family is reunited in Hollywood, they learn that it is great place to live.

Cast

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Release and reception

Sheet music of the cues from the film were distributed to theaters, and theater owners were told to distribute them, free of charge, to their customers. The film received mixed reviews, but was commercially successful.

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A still of the pool scene from the film
1922 films American black-and-white films Silent American comedy films American propaganda films American silent feature films Films about Hollywood, Los Angeles 1922 comedy films Arrow Film Corporation films 1920s American films {{1920s-comedy-film-stub