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Submit Your ReviewDean Martin and Jerry Lewis made their last joint film appearance in the girl-filled musical Hollywood or Bust. The thinnish plot finds inveterate film fan Jerry making a cross-country journey to Tinseltown for the purpose of meeting his favorite screen star, the buxom Anita Ekberg (the film's ...more
Year: 1956 | Running Time: 95 minutes
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The second collaboration between director Frank Tashlin, Jerry Lewis, and Dean Martin, and the final pairing of the two stars, Hollywood or Bust doesn't quite reach the sustained lunacy of Artists and Models, but still ranks among the best uses of the Martin and Lewis team and serves as a fine example of Tashlin's unique approach to comedy. Putting the pair in a car (with a Great Dane, no less) and forcing them to travel across the country is an inspired choice, one that allows Tashlin a chance ...more
- Dean Martin - Steve Wiley
- Jerry Lewis - Malcolm Smith
- Anita Ekberg - Herself
- Pat Crowley - Terry
- "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom - Bookie Benny
- Kathryn Card - Old Lady
- Michael Ross - Guard
- Ben Welden - Boss
- Adele August
- Frank Wilcox - Director
- Sandra White
- Willard Waterman - Manager Neville
- Richard Karlan - Sammy Ross
- Wendell Niles - M.C.
- Frank Tashlin - Director
- Hal B. Wallis - Producer
- Erna Lazarus - Screenwriter
- Henry Bumstead - Art Director
- Hal Pereira - Art Director
- Paul Nathan - Associate Producer
- Charles O'Curran - Choreography
- Edith Head - Costume Designer
- Howard A. Smith - Editor
- Sammy Fain - Composer (Music Score)
- Walter Scharf - Composer (Music Score)
- Paul Francis Webster - Composer (Music Score)
- Walter Scharf - Musical Direction/Supervision
- Sammy Fain - Songwriter
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