Movie Drama
ONE DAY A STAR - THE NEXT AN EXTRA!
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
John Halliday Marsha Hunt Robert Cummings C. Henry Gordon Esther Ralston Esther Dale Frieda Inescort Albert Conti Thomas E. Jackson Oscar Apfel Purnell Pratt Irving Bacon Rita La Roy Francis X. Bushman Maurice Costello Betty Compson Mae Marsh Charles Ray Herbert Rawlinson Jane Novak Bryant Washburn Jack Mulhall Creighton Hale Roy D'Arcy Jack Mower Frank Mayo Harry Myers Mabel Forrest Tom Kennedy Pat O'Malley Lois Kent Eleanore Whitney William Bailey Bobby Barber Edmund Burns Edward Cecil Ethel Clayton Ruth Clifford Gary Cooper Edgar Dearing William Desmond Ellen Drew Lowell Drew Jean Dudley Eddie Dunn Ann Evers Hyman Fink Jerry Fletcher James Ford Gregory Gaye Margareth Harrison Robert Homans Margaret Mann Kathryn McHugh Bert Moorhouse Frances Morris Charles Morton Marshall Neilan Phil Ohman Franklin Parker Richard Powell Hal Price Matty Roubert Charles Ruggles Mack Sennett S.S. Simon Gertrude Simpson Louise Stanley John Sylvester White Phil Tead Emanuel A. Turner Monte Vandergrift Billy Wayne Charles Williams Freeman Wood Otto Yamaoka Harold Lloyd Rosemary Theby
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