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Author: George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart
First Published: 1930
Type of Work: Play
Type of Plot: Comedy
Time of Work: 1927
Setting: New York City and Hollywood
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Subjects: Values, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Acting or actors, Power, personal or social, Love or romance, New York City, 1920’s, Success or failure, Drama or dramatists, Hollywood, Filmmaking or filmmakers, Entrepreneurship or entrepreneurs
Locales: California, New York, NY, Hollywood, CA

Jerry Hyland, the leader of a small-time, three-person vaudeville act who becomes an executive at Glogauer Studios in Hollywood. A likable second-rate actor in his early thirties, he has a penchant for concocting moneymaking schemes to get the trio out of vaudeville. After seeing The Jazz Singer, the first motion picture with sound, Jerry is convinced that talkies will revolutionize the film industry. He sells the act and persuades his partners to go to Hollywood to become part of that revolution. When it seems that he has “gone Hollywood,” Jerry...

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