Romance of Celluloid (1937)

Cast

Adrian, Clark Gable, Cliff Edwards, Gladys George, Herbert Stothart, Jack Dawn, Jessie Ralph, Maureen O'Sullivan, Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Virginia Grey

The story

The film starts with a brief look at cotton being picked on a plantation in the southern United States, before cutting to the Kodak plant in Rochester, New York where the raw cotton is processed into cellulose which is treated with silver and other materials to make film stock. Behind the scenes at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in Culver City, California, where sets are being constructed, we see make-up artist Jack Dawn demonstrating his Abraham Lincoln make-up, costume designer Adrian sketching a dress for Jeanette MacDonald in The Firefly (1937), composer Herbert Stothart conducting the music for Conquest (1937), Virginia Grey doing…

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