Hollywouldn't

Made with tongues firmly in cheeks, Hollywouldn’t is a freewheeling satire on the Hollywood industry at the height of the silent era. This Biff Comedies two-reeler wastes no time in taking potshots at sacred cows. We are quickly introduced to the Wrex Film company, its director Mr. Cecil Von Cruse (neatly felling three giants with one name) and leading lady Dolly Dove (Billie Dove, Mary Pickford, take your pick). Add a lovestruck cowboy and an equally smitten gent from Indiana, numerous bad insider puns and lots of action, and Hollywouldn’t achieves a level of success all its own. As a warning to other wannabe stars, it concludes by offering timeless advice: “Moral—it is better to stay at home and be thought a fool than to travel and remove all doubt.”