Hollywood or Bust

The last scene supposedly occurs during premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theater but there are no hand or footprints in the forecourt as the stars walk red carpet.

Apparently, Tashlin was a little confused about Paramount's production scheduleMalcolm mentions having seen the 'Burt Lancaster' (qv) adaptation of _The Rainmaker (1956)_ (qv), which would not come out until after Hollywood or Bust was already released.

Having spent the last two or so weeks watching Martin & Lewis movies in chronological order on YouTube, I just finished their very last one on the same site. Once again, a couple of female players from their previous ones have appeared here: Pat Crowley, previously Jerry's girl in Money from Home, is now Dean's here though she initially plays hard to get.

Dean and Jerry seem as though they are just going through the motions in this movie. I don't think I laughed at all and was kind of bored.

As with most Martin and Lewis films, this is as stupid as the others. Plot inconstancies..

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis made this very good, wacky comedy and musical for their parting of ways in films. "Hollywood or Bust" is a type of road show, literally, that may be the most blatant Hollywood blast at television.

I honestly had the best times watching these pair together in all of their films I have seen. They were so incredibly brilliant by all the antics, performances and singing I have experienced in watching them by being such the best men in the whole of the show business industry.

This is the last of the 16 movies which Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis made together, and by this point they weren't even speaking to each other off-camera, but this time the screen is filled with even more inventiveness than usual. That's because the director is master satirist Frank Tashlin, who, having already taken on rock and roll (The Girl Can't Help It) and comic books (Artists and Models, also with Dean and Jerry), now turns his attention to movie fandom.

Though according to the Nick Tosches biography of Dean Martin, both Martin and Lewis were barely speaking to each other off camera, the two of them did go out on a good note in Hollywood Or Bust.In fact the antagonism between them probably helped in a way.

It was time. Time to end the partnership.

Malcolm Smith (Jerry Lewis) wins a car in a lottery but degenerate gambler Steve Wiley (Dean Martin) scams the contest with a counterfeit ticket. Malcolm is a dedicated fan of famed actress Anita Ekberg driving across the country to Hollywood.