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Lifes flotsam and jetsam turn up at late 1930s Hollywoodlands door, once more, in this insightful tale of wannabes and desperadoes. Tod Hackett, artist, has inspirations to become noticed until he meets Faye Greener, blonde bombshell, and is immediately smitten. She has other ideas. She has Homer Simpson, victim, in her sights and cruelty and loneliness takes new meaning as all three are slowly sucked into the Hollywood system of sycophants, diggers and parasites, sucking the life from others as the life, and soul, is slowly sucked from them.
Its 1930s Hollywood, a town where many come to fulfill their dreams which largely do not only not get realized, but end up being the cause of tragedy. Two such dreamers are Yale educated Tod Hackett, who has just gotten a job in the art department at Paramount and who, like all his colleagues, wants to become an art director, and aspiring actress Faye Greener, who lives with her ex-vaudevillian father Harry Greener, who now uses his vaudeville clown shtick to sell tonic door-to-door. Fayes goal is to become both rich and famous, and as she has only been able to get work on screen so far as an extra, she figures she has to marry someone rich, although she is not averse to having fun with others not husband material along the way. Tod and Faye meet both being residents of the run down San Bernardino Arms, a bungalow court residence, he immediately attracted to her and quickly following falls in love with her. While she strings Tod and many others along for what she can get out of them, Faye ultimately enters into a business arrangement with accountant Homer Simpson, an outwardly religious man who is a repressed ball of nerves when it comes to anything social, let alone sexual. In his dealings with Faye and Homer, and in his effort to climb the studio ladder using whatever tools he has at his disposal, Tod is exposed to the good, bad and ugly of Hollywood life, that tragedy within this group inevitable with the proper proverbial trigger.
Donald Sutherland
Homer
Karen Black
Faye
Burgess Meredith
Harry
William Atherton
Tod
Geraldine Page
Big Sister
Richard Dysart
Claude Estee
Bo Hopkins
Earle Shoop
Pepe Serna
Miguel
Lelia Goldoni
Mary Dove
Billy Barty
Abe
Jackie Earle Haley
Adore
Gloria LeRoy
Mrs. Loomis
Jane Hoffman
Mrs. Odlesh
Norman Leavitt
Mr. Odlesh
Madge Kennedy
Mrs. Johnson
Ina Gould
Lee Sister
Florence Lake
Lee Sister
Margaret Willey
Gingo
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