Vélez, Jimmy Durante and Zasu Pitts playing bridge was deleted after it was lost on British viewers not yet familiar with the game. Additional episodes that featured actors Herman Bing, Johnny Weissmuller, Jackie Cooper and Max Baer were cut from the movie. As a result, surviving prints run approximately 68 minutes, but the original run time was 75 minutes. Famed songwriters Rodgers and Hart contributed most of the music. Gus Kahn wrote "Moonlight Serenade" for the 1933 Busby Berkeley movie Footlight Parade. However, when that song was cut from the Warner Bros. picture, it was placed a year later in Hollywood Party and sung by Eddie Quillan. The movie was neither a financial nor critical success. It was considered too avant garde to appeal to general audiences. It remains significant today for its 31 stars, including Laurel and Hardy, radio celebrity Jack Pearl, The Three Stooges (in their final appearance for MGM), and Mickey Mouse. The Three Stooges routine was written by Arthur Kober. The Mickey Mouse sequence introduces a Technicolor cartoon, The Hot Choc-late Soldiers, created by Walt Disney with music by Nacio Herb Brown, and lyrics by Arthur Freed. Reception Critical reception for Hollywood Party upon its original release was largely negative. Multiple exhibitors wrote in to the Motion Picture Herald to express their disgust with the movie, and one theater manager from Kentucky called it "One of the poorest excuses for a picture we have ever played". The New York Times wrote that it "may have been very funny while it was being made, but as it comes to the screen it is not a little disappointing". See also Laurel and Hardy films Three Stooges Filmography References External links Hollywood Party at the Internet Movie Database 1933 films 1933 musical comedy films 1930s color films American films with live action and animation American musical comedy films Mickey Mouse films The Three Stooges films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films Films directed by Roy Rowland Films produced by Harry Rapf American black-and-white films Early color films 1930s English-language films 1930s American films