Hollywood Story

In the wake of the success of HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD in 1950, every studio in the city began making its own contribution to the mythology of the screen. One of the lesser efforts was Universal's HOLLYWOOD STORY. Roughly borrowing its basis from the unsolved murder of director William Desmond Taylor in 1922, it tells the story of Conte, an independent producer who comes to Hollywood to make a movie about the murder of a silent-film director. He locates Hull, the dead director's scriptwriter, and puts him to work on the screenplay. Eventually it develops that Hull is actually the brother of the dead man, jealous of his sibling's talents (which extended to writing, too; ...