screen images / Hollywood Party / 1934 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer


"Da Ol' Schnozzola" in a loincloth? Only in the first few minutes of this film in a coming attraction preview of "Schnarzan the Conqueror", a parody of M-G-M's 1932's Tarzan the Ape Man. with Durante as a Tarzan-like jungle movie star. Johnny Weissmuller was featured in the orginal cut of the film but his appearance is deleted from existing prints. The film ending reveals the story to be a dream of Durante who fell asleep while reading Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan the Untamed.

Reviews were largely negative for the film advertised to have everything: Stars! Girls! Music! Cast of 2,000!