Review of 365 Nights in Hollywood

Washed up motion picture director, Jimmy Dale (James Dunn), joins forces with a shyster named Delmar who runs a Hollywood dramatic school for young hopefuls (which seems heavy on the bratty little girls with moms that hope for them to become the next Shirley Temple). Dale starts work as the school's new dramatic coach, and they place an ad promoting that "Jimmy Dale wants to find the new Star of Tomorrow" ("Talent Not Necessary") to get new students to the school. This school also boasts former student, actor Adrian Almont, who never really went there but takes bribes for the use of his "name" (and he seems to be always hanging around there too, with not much to do even though apparently he's still a "success"). Lured by the dramatic school's ad, pretty gal from Peoria, Alice Perkins (played by Alice Faye), soon arrives in town in hopes of making it big in the movies and meanwhile spends her days working as carhop at a local burger joint and her nights taking "acting" lessons at the school. When Alice meets a man who just inherited $75,000, Dale, who doesn't really *seem* like a crook, agrees to go along with a scheme to rook the man out of his money. Delmar convinces the guy to invest his $75,000 in a new movie which will be directed by Dale, and meanwhile has plans to pocket $30,000 of the money split between Delmar, Adrian Almont, and Dale. But Jimmy Dale would like a comeback more than anything, and with pretty Alice as the star of his film, how could it not be a success?!

This film is a bit creaky, but it does have Alice Faye who pretty much steals the picture, looking loads like Jean Harlow in this, she performs in a couple of very fun, enjoyable musical numbers. Mitchell and Durant play two goofballs that are supposed to be a sort of Laurel and Hardy of the ice delivery world, but manage to not be funny and come across as just annoying.