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Leaping Love
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Warren H. Doane (Warren Doane)
Cast: Charley Chase [Charley Chase, a nightclub singer], Barbara Leonard [Barbara Harrison, Charley’s girlfriend], Isabel Keith (Isabelle Keith) [Betty Harrison, Barbara’s mother], Dixie Gay [Dixie, the cigarette girl], Maurice Black [Nick, the nightclub manager]; Ernie Adams [George, the drunk at Barbara’s table], Eleanor Fredericks [a club patron at Barbara’s table], Evelyn Burns [Mrs. Burns, the swooning older club patron], Earl McCarthy [the young man with Mrs. Burns], Kay Deslys [the crying woman], Rolfe Sedan [the crying woman’s husband], Harry Bernard [the burned waiter], Symona Boniface [a club patron], Jack Chefe [a club patron], Jay Eaton [a club patron], James Ford [a club patron], Clara Guiol [a club patron], Jack Hill [a reporter], Ham Kinsey [a reporter], Charlie Hall [the short ambulance attendant], [?] ? [the tall ambulance attendant], [?] ? [the man Charley knocks over (four times)], [?] ? [the club patron who talks with Nick about Charley], [?] ? [the hat check girl], Hayes E. Robertson [the band leader and violin player], Lionel Hampton [the band drummer], Charlie Lawrence [a band saxophone player], Lawrence Brown [the band trombone player], Paul Howard [a band saxophone player], Paul Howard’s Quality Serenaders [the nightclub band]
Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer All Talking Picture]. / Produced by Hal Roach. From a screen story by [?] Leo McCarey? Story editor, H.M. Walker. Song “Some Sweet Day” by Nat Shilkret and Lew Pollack (music and lyrics). Photographed (cinematography) by George Stevens. Film editor, Richard Currier (Richard C. Currier). Presented by Hal Roach. / Released 22 June 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / [?] Gay’s final film? / Full-sound film.
Comedy.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Keywords: Alum - Crutches - Dancing - Docks - Drunks - Flowers - Furcoats - Mirrors - Musical instruments: Saxophones, Ukeleles, Violins - Musicians - Nightclubs - Oceanliners - Plastic surgery - Singers - Synchronized sound film - Transportation: Ambulances - USA: California: San Pedro (San Pedro Pier) - Water - Wheelchairs
Listing updated: 4 October 2023.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Maltin-Selected p. 62 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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