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It’s a Great Life
Also known as Que Boa Vida! in Brazil; Pigerne fra Stormagasinet in Denmark; Elämän iloa in Finland; La grande vie in France; La romanza dell’amore in Italy; 鴛鴦の舞 in Japan; A Grande Vida in Portugal
(1929) United States of America
Color/B&W : 11 reels / 8575 feet / 93 minutes
Directed by Sam Wood

Cast: Rosetta Duncan [Casey Hogan], Vivian Duncan [Babe Hogan], Lawrence Gray [Jimmy Dean], Jed Prouty [David Parker], Benny Rubin [Benny Friedman], John J. Richardson [the Italian vegetable cart vendor], Ann Dvorak [a chorus girl], Oscar Apfel, Rolfe Sedan, Wylie Watson, Crane Wilbur

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Dialogue by Al Boasberg and Willard Mack, from a screen story by Alfred Block, Byron Morgan and Leonard Praskins. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons. Costume design by David Cox. Music score by William Axt. Dance direction by Sammy Lee. Choreography assistant, Ann Dvorak. Cinematography by J. Peverell Marley. Sound recording by Douglas Shearer. Film editor, Frank Sullivan. / Released 6 December 1929. / Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format (Movietone version) and Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format (Vitaphone version). Technicolor two-strip color process sequences. Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system and Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / Working titles: Cotton and Silk and Imperfect Ladies. The film was also released in the USA in a silent version by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation in 1929. The film was released in Finland as Elämän iloa on 14 December 1930. The film was released in Ireland on 19 December 1930. The film was released in Denmark as Pigerne fra Stormagasinet on 2 February 1931. The film was released in Portugal as A Grande Vida on 21 May 1931. The film was released in France as La grande vie on 9 October 1931. / Full-sound film.

Comedy: Musical-Romance.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Listing updated: 13 April 2020.

References: Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.

 
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