Jungle movie star "Schnarzan", a character in parody of Tarzan, is advised by his manager that he needs new lions for his pictures, as his old ones are "worn out".

Rapf's 1933 revue would star Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Marie Dressler, and Lee Tracy, supported by studio comedians Jimmy Durante, Lupe Vélez, Charles Butterworth, and Jack Pearl.

After a series of expensive rewrites and revisions, with numerous directors taking a hand in the filming, only the comedians remained, with Polly Moran, George Givot, and Ted Healy and his (Three) Stooges augmenting the cast.

A sequence that had featured Thelma Todd (impersonating Mae West), Lupe Vélez, Jimmy Durante, and ZaSu Pitts playing bridge was deleted after it was lost on British viewers not yet familiar with the game.

[6] Additional episodes that featured actors Herman Bing, Johnny Weissmuller, Jackie Cooper, and Max Baer were cut from the movie.

Hollywood Party remains significant today for its comedy stars, including Laurel and Hardy, radio celebrity Jack Pearl, The Three Stooges (in their final appearance for MGM, written by Arthur Kober[11]), and Mickey Mouse.

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.

The failure of Hollywood Party resulted in Rapf being transferred to MGM's short-subjects department, but he acquitted himself well enough there to return to low-budget feature productions, which he produced until his death in 1949.