Director: Michael J. Sheridan (uncredited)
Stars: Mickey Rooney (narrator) and nearly 100 named actors, actresses, directors, songwriters.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073122/
Release date??
In the book: Cary Grant: A Biography, by Marc Eliot, Crown/Archetype, Feb 4, 2009 - Biography & Autobiography - 448 pages
on page 418, under Television Appearances, it lists
Hooray for Hollywood (1975) Archive footage.Also, the Hooray for Hollywood (1975) Soundtrack has songs from this film and shows this cover.
Watched this because Condos Brothers (Frank and Harry) are credited. Here's the problem: when the narrator says these are the Condos Brothers, he's completely mis-identifying the dancers onscreen. What's showing is the Lullaby of Broadway number from Gold Diggers of 1935, and we're watching a trio of very good tappers, but none of them is a Condos Brother. He does NOT mention individual names.
If I could have watched it just for the pleasure of the clips, it would have been pretty good. However, this print is widescreen, not letterboxed, which created a problem on the first clip from Something to Sing About ('37). Jimmy Cagney goes flying through the air and punches his fist through a tamborine someone throws at him. His head and fist is out of frame at the moment of impact. That's not how the original film looks.
If there's any coherence to the narrative, I missed it. I find it strange to call this a documentary, because it illuminates nothing. And it certainly doesn't meet my current standards for naming names and dates and getting them right. Most films included remain unnamed. Other than the Condos calamity, the narrator makes it sound as though Busby Berkeley created the enormous production numbers Shadow Waltz and By a Waterfall for the 1942 compilation short Calling All Girls. Nope.
But it has lots of good numbers, and the prints used are good quality.
Cinamo Inc., dir. Sheridan; 7-
