In this classic Hollywood exposé, the press comes in for particularly harsh judgment for its dehumanizing treatment of a star on the rise played by Constance Bennett, who had her own issues with fan magazines over her unapologetically cutthroat negotiating tactics and lucrative percentage deals. While What Price Hollywood? plays as show business tragedy, Bennett eventually assuaged her critics as a freelancer, once declaring, “Hollywood taught me to fight for my rights.”
35mm, b/w, 88 min. Production: RKO Pathé Pictures. Distribution: RKO-Pathé Distributing Corp. Director: George Cukor. Based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns. Screenwriter: Gene Fowler, Rowland Brown. Cinematographer: Charles Rosher. Editor: Del Andrews, Jack Kitchin. Composer: Max Steiner. Cast: Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton, Gregory Ratoff, Brooks Benedict.
