Three Hollywood Girls

Leota Lane, Phyllis Crane, and Rita Flynn are three hopefuls new to Hollywood. They find the going a lot tougher than they expected, until Eddie Nugent shows up with a script for an old-time melodrama.

It's the first of the "Hollywood Girls" shorts that Jack White produced for Educational Pictures during the sound era. Clearly director Roscoe Arbuckle is uncertain of how to pace comedies during the sound era, and a lot of the two reels is used in establishing character. It's clear that with a script co-written by James Gleason, that there's a lot of possibility in the series idea, but the viewing was not helped by a wonky sound track.

"Three Hollywood Girls" is the first in a short series of Hollywood Girls series from Educational Pictures. The films feature three young ladies who are struggling and trying to make it in films and several, if not all of the films, are directed by Fatty Arbuckle.

While I think some of these films are quite good (such as "Crashing Hollywood"), this one is very weak...mostly because there are few laughs and seeing the ladies conniving in order to get ahead alone wasn't enough to sustain my interest. Not a terrible film but certainly not much in the way of comedy.