Queenie of Hollywood

In the fourth short in the Hollywood Girls series, ever hopeful Virginia Brooks, Rita Flynn, and Jeanne Farrin are on their uppers, owing everyone. So they take jobs as chambermaids at a hotel. This being a comedy, they are mistaken for royalty traveling incognito, are pampered by the hotel, and sought after by a convention of movie producers who show up.

There are a couple of good physical gags and funny situations under the expert direction of William Goodrich -- the pseudonym of Roscoe Arbuckle after he was banned from films, after being found not guilty of murdering Virginia Rappe.

The title refers to the girl's dog Queenie, a movie regular since 1922, and one of the sources of confusion that set up the situation.

Tonight I watched three of the Hollywood Girls shorts from Educational Pictures. It's like the other two I saw in that it was directed by Fatty Arbuckle AND they were all about a trio of young ladies trying to make it big in pictures. Unfortunately, the shorts had no consistency with its cast. In other words, the composition of the ladies in this group kept changing and probably didn't help the films to gain traction with the public.

In "Queenie of Hollywood", the ladies get jobs working at a local hotel. After all, they can't find work in pictures and they do need to eat! But a weird mistake happens before they arrive at work. The ladies have a dog named 'Queenie' and somehow the hotel has the idea that a real queen is coming to the hotel to stay! So, the hotel is abuzz and they want to make a great impression for the queen! And so, when the ladies arrive, they think they are the queen's assistants...and everyone is VERY friendly. In addition, Hollywood talent scouts begin arriving, wanting to put the queen in pictures!!

The plot is original and clever....though there are not as many laughs as they could have gotten from this situation. Worth seeing but not the best film in the series.