A War in Hollywood

A War in Hollywood
Spanish	Hollywood contra Franco
Directed by	Oriol Porta
Written by	Isabel Andrés Oriol Porta Llorenç Soler
Produced by	Lisa Berger Cristina Mora Elisa Plaza
Cinematography	David Garcia
Edited by	David Gutiérrez Camps
Music by	Carles Pedragosa
Production companies	Televisió de Catalunya Àrea de Televisió
Distributed by	Id Communications Àrea de Televisió
Release date	August 21, 2008 (2008-08-21)(Santander)
Running time	92 min
Box office	US$11,000

A War in Hollywood (Spanish : Hollywood contra Franco) is a 2008 Spanish documentary biography historical film directed by Oriol Porta. ^[1] It is about the Spanish Civil War which affected Hollywood artists such as Alvah Bessie. ^[2]

Cast

• Lluís Soler and Brendan Price as Alvah Bessie
• Moe Fishman as himself, Member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
• Susan Sarandon as herself
• Román Gubern as himself - Film Historian
• Dan Bessie as himself - Alvah Bessie's Son
• Walter Bernstein as himself
• Arthur Laurents as himself
• Patrick McGilligan as himself - Author of 'Tender Comrades'
• Eric Johnston as himself - Motion Pictures Association
• James Philips as voice over off line
• Lauren Bacall as Rose Cullen / Herself
• Ingrid Bergman as María
• Herbert J. Biberman as himself
• Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine / Himself
• Charles Boyer as Luis Denard
• Joseph I. Breen as himself
• Madeleine Carroll as Norma
• Claudette Colbert as Augusta Nash
• Lester Cole as himself
• Gary Cooper as Robert Jordan
• Bette Davis as Sara Muller
• Edward Dmytryk as himself
• Dwight D. Eisenhower as himself
• Henry Fonda as Marco
• Francisco Franco as himself
• John Garfield as John 'Kit' McKittrick / Himself
• Murray Hamilton as Brooks Carpenter
• Ernest Hemingway as himself
• Hirohito as himself
• Adolf Hitler as himself
• Danny Kaye as himself
• Ring Lardner Jr. as himself
• John Howard Lawson as himself
• Michael Lonsdale as Reporter
• Albert Maltz as himself
• Christian Marquand as Zaganar
• Ray Milland as Tom Martin
• Zero Mostel as Hecky Brown
• Michael Murphy as Alfred Miller
• Benito Mussolini as himself
• Patrick O'Neal as George Bissinger
• Samuel Ornitz as himself
• Gregory Peck as Harry Street / Manuel Artiguez
• Anthony Quinn as Viñolas
• Claude Rains as Captain Louis Renault
• Franklin D. Roosevelt as himself
• Adrian Scott as himself
• Joseph Stalin as himself
• Mark Stevens as Dr. David Foster
• Barbra Streisand as Katie
• Dalton Trumbo as himself
• Manuela Vargas as María
• James Woods as Frankie McVeigh

References

1. "'Hollywood contra Franco' demuestra que no sólo el cine español habla de la Guerra Civil". Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española (in Spanish). 7 October 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
2. "Hollywood contra Franco". Fotogramas (in Spanish). Hearst Magazines International. 14 October 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2019.

External links

• Official website
• A War in Hollywood at IMDb