Movie Movie

Movie Movie is a 1978 American double bill directed by Stanley Donen.[1]  It consists of two films, Dynamite Hands, aboxing ring morality play, and Baxter's Beauties of 1933, a musical comedy, both starring the husband-and-wife team ofGeorge C. Scott and Trish Van Devere. A fake trailer for a flying-ace movie set in World War I entitled Zero Hour (also starring Scott) is shown between the double feature.

Barry Bostwick, Red Buttons, Art Carney and Eli Wallach also appear in both segments, with Harry Hamlin, Barbara Harris and Ann Reinking featured in one each. The script was written by Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller.



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[hide]  *1 Plot summary  ==Plot summary[ edit] == At the start of the film, George Burns tells us that we are about to see an old-style double feature. In the old days, he explains, movies were in black-and-white, except sometimes "when they sang it came out in color." ===Dynamite Hands[ edit] === Joey Popchik, a young man from a poor family, dreams of one day becoming a lawyer. His sister is losing her eyesight, so he becomes a boxer to raise the money to have her cured. Along the way, he gets seduced by fame and fortune, and runs afoul of a crooked boxing manager. In the end, his sister is cured and Joey, so that "poetic justice could be served," races through law school to become the prosecutor who puts the villain behind bars, spouting corny courtroom aphorisms such as "a man can move mountains with his bare heart." ===Baxter's Beauties of 1933[ edit] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Legendary theatrical producer Spats Baxter learns he's dying. To support the daughter he's never known after he's gone he plans to create one last Broadway smash. Kitty, a young ingenue with dreams of performing on Broadway arrives to audition. Baxter's accountant is at heart a genius songwriter. Baxter's star, Isobel Stuart, is a spoiled actress who almost destroys the entire production with her drunkenness and reckless spending of the show's money. In the end Kitty must go on in Isobel's place. Kitty becomes a star, and learns that Baxter is her long-lost father. As the curtain falls, a dying Baxter tells her, "One minute you're standing in the wings, the next minute you're wearing 'em." ==Cast<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Release<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">In the theatrical release, as George Burns leads us to expect in the film's prologue, Dynamite Hands and the mock film trailer were in black-and-white, while the musicalBaxter's Beauties of 1933 was in color. Some home video editions featured the original color version of Dynamite Hands which was printed on black and white film stock during its theatrical release.
 * 1.1 Dynamite Hands
 * 1.2 Baxter's Beauties of 1933
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 Release
 * 4 Awards
 * 5 References
 * 6 External links
 * George C. Scott - Gloves Malloy / Spats Baxter
 * Trish Van Devere - Betsy McGuire / Isobel Stuart
 * Red Buttons - Peanuts / Jinks Murphy
 * Eli Wallach - Vince Marlow / Pop
 * Rebecca York - Kitty
 * Harry Hamlin - Joey Popchik
 * Ann Reinking - Troubles Moran
 * Jocelyn Brando - Mama Popchik / Mrs. Updike
 * Michael Kidd - Pop Popchik
 * Kathleen Beller - Angie Popchik
 * Barry Bostwick - Johnny Danko / Dick Cummings
 * Art Carney - Doctor Blaine / Doctor Bowers
 * Clay Hodges - Sailor Lawson
 * George P. Wilbur - Tony Norton
 * Peter Stader - Barney Keegle (as Peter T. Stader)
 * Jimmy Lennon Sr. - The Announcer (as James Lennon)
 * Barbara Harris-Trixie Lane
 * Charles Lane-The Judge-Mr.Pennington

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Lew Grade liked the movie so much that he commissioned Larry Gelbart to write a sequel. However the movie failed at the box office. Grade blamed poor distribution from Warner Bros.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-grade_2-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[2] ==Awards<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Movie Movie earned three Golden Globes nominations, for Scott, for Hamlin and for Best Picture / Musical or Comedy.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Gelbart and Keller won the 1979 Writers Guild of America award for Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen.