Hollywood Arms
Hollywood Arms is a
comedy by
Carrie Hamilton and
Carol Burnett set in
Hollywood, California in
1941 and
1951. It is based on
Carol Burnett's memoir
One More Time.
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Louise, Helen's mother.
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Young Helen (11)*
Older Helen (21)*
Nanny, Helen's grandmother.
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Jody, Helen's father.
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Bill, Louise's boyfriend.
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Dixie, manager of the Hollywood Arms apartment building.
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Malcolm, Dixie's young son.
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Alice, Helen's younger sister.
Set in
California in
1941 and
1951.
Hollywood Arms is the funny and moving story of three generations of women living on welfare in a one-room apartment, one block north of
Hollywood Boulevard. The cast of characters includes a tough, funny and tender grandmother; a beautiful, wide-eyed and distant mother who is struggling to be a writer; a loving but absent father; and a young girl whose only escape is up on the roof of their rundown apartment house where she creates her own magical world at the foot of the
Hollywood Hills.
