It starred J. Frank Glendon, Josephine Hill, and Gale Henry, and featured a number of cameo appearances of celebrities with their families.

Instead of depicting Hollywood as a lurid, sensual Babylon, with its reported debauches of depravity and wickedness, it was shown as a model city, beautiful and attractive, and populated with home-loving people.

[6][7] Joe Powell (Glendon) runs away from his small town in Arkansas to visit Hollywood, anticipating debauchery.

Once the family is reunited in Hollywood, they learn that it is great place to live.

[13] An incomplete print of Night Life in Hollywood is held by the Library of Congress.