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The rating was in the high 7s and one day 600-plus low votes appeared in one fell swoop. The same thing happened with Hollywood Mouth 2, on the same day, with the same 3.3 rating. This goes back to 2007 when the person attacking these pages was encountered at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood. In spite of his cyberbullying and hacking, he continues to live in the building and is still employed as theater manager. Another low vote added. Keywords vandalized constantly.

Harvey Lembeck...he was about the same age as Brando and appeared in Stalag 17 on Broadway in 1951 and in the movie version of that play. In the '60s he was in Love with the Proper Stranger with Steve McQueen and in the American-International beach party movies where his character was a parody of Brando's role in The Wild One. He was also an acting teacher and founded a theatrical workshop in L.A.

A synopsis appears on the film's Official Site, http://www.hollywoodmouth.com.

The answers appear on the movie's Official Site, www.hollywoodmouth.com. Some movie aficionados may know the answers without referring to the site.

Some of the memorabilia/collectibles items for sale are catalogued on index cards, a quick, at-hand referral system, which no doubt goes back to how the business began. The notations in pencil give a location for the item (which could be a closet, storage unit in the garage, or the like), and in some cases the original price of the item (designated by an "o").

The director is a fan of Warner Brothers movies of the 1930s. At that time Jack Warner liked the studio's films to move fast and to be fairly short in length. Montages were a way of achieving this. Like the aspect ratio (Academy ratio, the same ratio as all movies until the wide-screen processes of the 1950s) and the side wipes, this is another hommage to the movies of Golden Age Hollywood.

The Peter Lorre life mask is a copy of an original made at Don Post Studios in Los Angeles. Lorre died during production of the Jerry Lewis film The Patsy in 1964, and the lifecast was used to fill in for him in his remaining scenes. The special makeup effects consultant acquired the mask at the request of the director.

They are from two sets of cigarette cards which were manufactured in Germany in 1933 and 1936. These particular cards are extremely rare. In the 1920s and 1930s cigarette packages often contained a card (like a baseball card) that people collected, traded, and pasted into albums. The antiques dealer who allowed them to be used in the film found the two completed albums of cinema stars cards in a shop in New York City.

Berlyn wears US Keds' Player or Hampton shoes, a retro style, which fits her character's interest in nostalgia. She walks a lot in the film but does not wear a typical walking shoe, also a character point.

A voice-over was tried for this segment and it did not work; neither did music, nor complete silence. The sound for this scene was transferred from the natural sound recorded during the pan from the viewing deck on the east side of Hollywood & Highland.

Davis' rival Joan Crawford was married to the chairman of Pepsi-Cola, and Crawford was well-known as a promoter of Pepsi.

Cassini, a costume designer of 1940s movies, was from a White Russian family. Apart from the three films that he refers to by their titles, the other movies are, in order: The Scarlet Empress, Tovarich, Never Let Me Go, Grand Hotel, and The Great Sinner.

The brand is Wayfarer by Ray Ban. The style dates from 1953 and was originally developed for lifeguards in Southern California.

By renting a boom microphone. Every word of dialog was picked up in every take.

It was a gift to the director back in the late 1990s. The egg originally had candy mints in it. Note: this egg is not supposed to be representing the Faberge egg (although it is a copy of one of them); Berlyn says it was a souvenir from a Faberge exhibit in Las Vegas.

Around the time the script was being written, the director saw the word Berlin as graffiti by the Los Angeles River, and thought it probably referred to the '80s music group. The spelling was changed and the character says it's a combination of two relatives' names.

The composer/performer of the music, Francois Frederic Mouflin, is bilingual. Two of the characters in the film have come to Hollywood from France, and Berlyn is a fan of French films. It's not necessary to understand what the lyrics mean.