star, and for other colorful personalities.
Queenie helps Jolly arrange for all the desired guests to attend, but many agree to do so with reluctance, as they sense that Jolly's real aim is to "sell" them. on "Brother Jasper." The producers, who could put the film into release for Jolly if they
so decided, play particularly hard to get. Queenie tries to take Jolly's mind off the impending evening by dancing seductively for him in their bedroom.
Drinking, dancing, maneuvering and almost every sort of romance are the rule of the night at the party. In Jolly's sumptuous, ornate mansion the revelry spills over into the garden, the library, the bedrooms.
Kate brings Dale, but she can't hold on to him when Quenie goes on the make .
Queenie stops the action when she sings a solo that every eye, male and female, is fascinated by, and every ear, too. Especially those of Dale Sword.
Jolly has "Brother Jasper" projected for all. It is
a broad comedy in which he portrays and satirizes
a wide range of well-known characters. He wins
some laughs, but he doesn't win the financial support of the producers present.
While Queenie is alone romancing Dale - and most of the other guests are involved in some form of intimacy - Jolly befriends a wide-eyed teenager (ANNETTE FERRA). She is an aspiring dancer, and Jolly is kissing her when a stunt man slugs him. Dale intercedes and saves Jolly from a beating.
Jolly goes berserk. He grabs a pistol from his bodyguard (ROYAL DANO) and shoots Queenie and Dale fatally, while also wounding James Morrison, the poet.
The wild party is over, and so is the era of a pleasure-mad, hell-bent Hollywood. .