Plot: Peggy Pepper moves to Hollywood to make it big as a serious actress. She lands a role in a comedy and people seem to love her work. But when she becomes more famous, she quickly moves to more serious films when she gets the opportunity. She abandons the people who made her big, but she underestimates the impact of her decision.
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October 14, 2024
A classic film about film. Hollywood loves to put itself in the spotlight and does so in the most uninteresting way possible. Show People is a genre mashup that seems tailored to please audiences. There's a bit of romance, some comedy, a little slapstick, and a bunch of cliché characters that make everything feel easy and comfortable.
The constant music drove me nuts, the film isn't funny at all and the plot felt like it was well past its prime (yes, even for a film from 1928). At least it was short, slickly paced, and rather light, so there wasn't much time to get fully annoyed, but that's about all the positive I can muster right now.