The Jones Family in Hollywood
Cast & Crew
Malcolm St. Clair
Jed Prouty
Spring Byington
Ken Howell
George Ernest
June Carlson
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
When John Jones is elected to represent the Maryville Post at the American Legion Convention in Hollywood, he refuses to take his brood of children along, much to their disappointment. Granny, however, hitches a trailer to the car,and the whole family makes the pilgrimage to the movie capital. As the Jones's family vehicle travels down Hollywood Boulevard, the reckless-driving teenage star Danny Regan crashes into their car. Jones is irate, but Lucy, the Jones's youngest daughter and an aspiring actress, asks for the young star's autograph and assures him that no harm was done. Jones wants to take his kids to the Huntington Library and the Planetarium, but they are more interested in the movie industry and so accompany Lucy on her date with Danny to his studio. On the lot, an actress named Alice Morley tries without success to play the role of a small town girl. When her director sees the innocent Joneses passing through the set, he convinces her to spend some time with these representatives of country life. Danny offers Lucy a screen test, as he does every other pretty young girl with whom he flirts. Lucy apparently fails her test and is disappointed when she learns that she will be hired as an extra. Meanwhile, Jack and Alice begin to see each other frequently, and when Alice keeps asking Jack about the girls back home, Jack thinks that she wants to marry him. Jones goes to Alice's home to see if she loves his son in earnest. When Alice admits to Jones that she does not love Jack, the young man arrives with his mother and grandmother, and Alice openly flirts with Jones in order to discourage Jack's affections. The three Joneses then leave in a huff. Meanwhile, another brother, Roger, is angered that Danny has called Lucy a "dumb cluck," and he goes to the studio to confront him just as the actor is about to do a fight scene with stunt actors. Roger beats Danny up, teaching him a needed lesson, and Townsend, Danny's coach, offers him a job keeping temperamental stars in line. The Joneses arrive to witness the fight breaking up, and Jones insists that they leave Hollywood at once. When he hears Alice calling to him, he runs through various sets, including an Arab desert, crying out for his wife's help.
Director
Malcolm St. Clair
Cast
Jed Prouty
Spring Byington
Ken Howell
George Ernest
June Carlson
Florence Roberts
Billy Mahan
William Tracy
June Gale
Marvin Stephens
Hamilton Macfadden
Matt Mchugh
Frances Leslie
Lillian Porter
George Chandler
Ed Dearing
Pierre Watkin
Spike Rankin
George Meeker
Gerald Fielding
Mary Gordon
Lillian Yarbo
Ed Gaffney Jr.
Wilma Holly
Phyllis Barry
Florence Fields
Emmett Vogan
Lillian West
Sid Kubrick
Freddie Walburn
Charles Tannen
Harold Goodwin
Heinie Conklin
Arthur Rankin
Crew
Fred Allen
William H. Anderson
Jasper Blystone
Richard Day
Joseph Hoffman
Samuel Kaylin
Buster Keaton
Arthur Von Kirbach
Mark-lee Kirk
Thomas Little
Helen A. Myron
Edward Snyder
John Stone
Harold Tarshis
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Notes
The plot summary and credits for this film were drawn from a continuity contained in the Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection at the UCLA Theater Arts Library. According to materials contained in those files, Dorothy Robinson and John Reinhardt worked on an original treatment, but their contribution to the final film has not been confirmed. For additional information about the series, consult the Series Index and see entry above for Every Saturday Night.
