La ciudad de cartón
Cast & Crew
Catalina Bárcena
Antonio Moreno
José Crespo
Andrés De Segurola
Luis Alberni
José Rubio
Film Details
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Synopsis
Teresa and Fred Collins, happily wed, are having hard times on their ranch in Fresno. Teresa suggests going to San Francisco to borrow money, and because Fred is too timid to go himself, she offers to make the journey. After she acquires the loan, Teresa's train is involved in a wreck. Craig, a publicity agent for Titan Studios, arrives at the disaster scene to look for the famous European star Diana Dane, who was travelling to Hollywood for her first big film. Craig sees Teresa and decides that she is the famous actress, and Teresa, suffering from amnesia, believes him. Teresa is listed as missing, and Fred mourns his wife's death. In Hollywood, Craig gives Teresa the star treatment, and she meets Janet Gaynor, Robert Young and Lionel Barrymore, in addition to having her hair coiffed and her body pampered. Craig tries to arrange a marriage between her and Clarence Williams, another new star, for publicity. When Clarence takes Teresa to a premiere that evening and a dance at the Coconut Grove later, he discovers that she's not a typical Hollywood starlet and begins to fall in love with her. Fred, meanwhile, sees a picture of Teresa as Diana Dane and recognizes her as his wife. He travels to Titan Studios and manages to sneak inside. As Teresa rehearses, Fred calls out desperately to her, and confused to hear the sound of her husband's voice, she falls and is knocked unconscious. Upon waking up, Teresa remembers her identity and cannot remember her life as "Diana Dane." She tries, however, to pretend that she is the European actress, so that she and Fred can continue to make Diana's huge salary, but, in her identity as a farmer's wife, she can no longer act. Fred begs her to go away with him, as the dashed dreams and hopelessness of the "cardboard city" has worn them both down. But Teresa insists that they stay and admits that she has Hollywood "poison." Gibbons, another publicist, finds the couple and offers to promote their film careers, now that their story has been publicized. Gibbons only manages to get Fred a bit part in a Western, but when he offers to do a dangerous stunt that the other men shy away from, he is so good that Craig gives him a contract. Now a famous Western star, Fred poses on his front lawn for a bus load of tourists.
Cast
Catalina Bárcena
Antonio Moreno
José Crespo
Andrés De Segurola
Luis Alberni
José Rubio
Rudolf Amendt
Carlos Villarías
Julio Peña
Ralph Navarro
Francisco Maran
Luz Alba
Jose Peña "pepet"
Sumi Sumida
Alfredo Sabato
Blanca Vischer
Janet Gaynor
Lionel Barrymore
Robert Young
Crew
Samuel Kaylin
Louis King
José López Rubio
José López Rubio
Gregorio Martínez Sierra
Gregorio Martínez Sierra
Gregorio Martínez Sierra
John Reinhardt
John Stone
Film Details
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Notes
The plot summary was based on a dialogue continuity in the Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection, and the onscreen credits were taken from a screen credits sheet in the Twentieth Century-Fox Records of the Legal Department, both of which are in the UCLA Arts-Special Collections Library. This film was released in Santiago, Chile, and possibly other places, under the title Hollywood, la ciudad de cartón. The title was translated in reviews as "Cardboard City." New York Times mistakenly lists Roland Young, rather than Robert Young, as one of the stars who welcome "Teresa" to Hollywood.
