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Broadway Babies
Also known as {Broadway Babes}
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Nine reels / 8067 feet / 89 minutes
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy

Cast: Alice White [Delight Foster], Charles Delaney [Billy Buvanny], Fred Kohler [Percé Gessant], Tom Dugan [Scotty], Bodil Rosing [Sarah Durgen], Sally Eilers [Navarre King], Marion Byron [Florine Chandler], Jocelyn Lee [Blossom Royale], Louis Natheaux [Gus Brand], Maurice Black [Nick]

First National Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by First National Pictures, Incorporated. / Produced by Robert North. Screenplay by Monte Katterjohn, with dialogue by Monte Katterjohn and Humphrey Pearson, from the short story “Broadway Musketeers” by Jay Gelzer. Art direction by Jack Okey. Costume design by Max Rée. Songs “Wishing and Waiting for Love” by Harry Akst (music) and Grant Clarke (lyrics); “Jig, Jig, Jigaloo” and “Broadway Baby Dolls” by George W. Meyer (music) and Al Bryan (lyrics). Cinematography by Sol Polito. Film editor, Frank Ware. Intertitles written by Paul Perez. Presented by Richard A. Rowland. / © 8 July 1929 by First National Pictures, Incorporated [LP512]. Premiered 21 June 1929 in New York, New York. Released 30 June 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in a silent version by First National Pictures, Incorporated, on 28 July 1929. / Full-sound film.

Drama: Musical.

Survival status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Keywords: Canadians - Gamblers - Synchronized sound film - USA: New York: New York: Broadway

Listing updated: 9 June 2013.

References: Everson-Detective p. 54; Limbacher-Feature p. 32 : Website-AFI.

 
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