Without a characteristically delirious Berkeley number, 1937’s Hollywood Hotel instead leans heavily on the razzle-dazzle of legendary clarinetist Benny Goodman and his band, playing themselves in a series of virtuosic uncut performances—the centerpiece of which, titled “Sing, Sing, Sing,” affords each soloist a lengthy spotlight. Dick Powell plays the band’s fictional saxophonist, who is whisked away early in the plot by the calls of Hollywood, glorified here as a swanky wonderland where everyone’s a beatific performer at all hours of the day. When larger-than-life star Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) goads her studio by refusing to attend a lavish premiere, Powell gets picked as the escort for her doppelganger, little-known actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane). Every bit as bug-eyed at the allures of Movieland as his characters, Berkeley frames the action under the glittering lights of downtown, with Hollywood’s famous landmarks ecstatically superimposed in an early montage. The self-congratulatory schmaltz peaks in the “Hooray for Hollywood” finale, in which Powell croons what would become an anthem for the entertainment industry’s transformative power during the Depression.