Silent Era Information*Progressive Silent Film List*Lost Films*People*Theaters
Taylorology*Articles*Home Video*Books*Search
 
Foolish Wives BD
 
Silent Era Home Page  >  PSFL  >  Glorifying the American Girl (1929)
 
Progressive Silent Film List
A growing source of silent era film information.
This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett.
Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company.
All Rights Reserved.
About This Listing

Report Omissions or Errors
in This Listing

 

Glorifying the American Girl
(1929) United States of America
Color/B&W : 87 minutes
Directed by Millard Webb + [John Harkrider]

Cast: Mary Eaton [Gloria Hughes], Dan Healy [Miller], Kaye Renard [Mooney], Edward Crandall [Buddy], Olive Shea [Barbara], Sarah Edwards [Mrs. Hughes], Eddie Cantor [himself], Helen Morgan [herself], Rudy Vallee [himself]; Irving Berlin [himself], Florenz Ziegfeld [himself], Adolph Zukor [himself], Otto Kahn [himself], Texas Guinan [herself], James Walker [himself], Ring Lardner [himself], Noah Beery, Norman Brokenshire, Johnny Weissmuller

Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Monta Bell, under the personal supervision of Florenz Ziegfeld. From a screen story by J.P. McEvoy and Millard Webb. Music and lyrics by Walter Donaldson, Irving Berlin, Dave Stamper and Larry Spier. Revue finales designed and staged by John W. Harkrider. Ballet ensembles by Ted Shawn. Photographed (cinematography) by George Folsey. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Technicolor [process three] two-strip color process sequences. / The film was originally announced to star Ruth Taylor and Louise Brooks. The production was shot at Paramount’s Astoria studio on Long Island, New York. / Full-sound film.

Drama: Musical.

Survival status: Prints exist in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive; and in the film holdings of Cohen Media Group (Raymond Rohauer collection) [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Keywords: Color cinematography - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 4 April 2015.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Basten-Technicolor pp. 42, 170; Limbacher-Feature p. 94; Maltin-Classic pp. 254-255; Paris-Brooks p. 175; Taylor-Hitchcock p. 103 : Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 6 December 1929, p. 14.

 
Silent Era Home Page  >  PSFL  >  Glorifying the American Girl (1929)
 
Jazz Singer DVD
Become a Patron of Silent Era

SUPPORT SILENT ERA
USING THESE LINKS
WHEN SHOPPING AT
AMAZON

AmazonUS
AmazonCA
AmazonUK

Sherlock Holmes (1916) BD/DVD

Floating Weeds BD

Vitagraph BD

Foolish Wives BD

*