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Chicken a la King
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6417 feet
Directed by Henry Lehrman
Cast: Nancy Carroll [Maisie DeVoe], George Meeker [Buck Taylor], Arthur Stone [Oscar Barrows], Ford Sterling [Horace Trundle], Frances Lee [Babe Lorraine], Carol Holloway [Effie Trundle], Nora Hayden
Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Scenario by Izola Forrester and Mann Page, from the play Mr. Romeo by Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Isaac Paul and Wallace A. Mannheimer. Production supervision by William M. Conselman. Assistant director, Virgil Hart. Cinematography by Conrad Wells. Film editor, Frank Hull (Frank E. Hull) and Ralph Dietrich (Ralph J. Dietrich). Intertitles written by James A. Starr. Presented by William Fox. / © 31 May 1928 by Fox Film Corporation [LP25308]. Premiered circa 9 June 1928. Released 17 June 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: Mr. Romeo. / Silent film.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [Motion Picture News Booking Guide, 1929, (14), page 241] : Prosperous business man finds himself in the toils of two gold-digging chorus girls when he tires of his drab wife. Wife goes in for modern clothes and spends considerable of his cash to make herself look young again, and wins him back to the family fireside.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 25 June 2008.
References: Paris-Brooks p. 157 : Website-IMDb.
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