Has a particularly lumpy exposition, but picks up the minute doe-eyed mathematician Leslie Howard arrives in Tinsletown and meets Joan Blondell and learns the film business. Bogart seems miscast as a dog-carrying film producer, who's in love with terrible leading lady Marla Shelton (unfortunately living up to her character) whilst Alan Mowbray is a cliché of a film director and Jack Carson a cliché of the publicity man.
Interestingly an independent (Walter Wanger) production, written by Clarence Budington Kelland, Gene Towne & C. Graham Baker. Features a man who is forcibly ejected from the studio by being slung over a wall. Sets us up though with a performing seal that isn't used, nor does the stand-in become a leading lady (another lost opportunity). Still, welcome jokes at expense of film industry.
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