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Show Girl
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6252 feet / 61 minutes
Directed by Alfred Santell

Cast: Alice White [Dixie Dugan], Donald Reed [Álvarez Romano], Lee Moran [Denny], Charles Delaney [Jimmy], Richard Tucker [Milton], Gwen Lee [Nita Dugan], James Finlayson [Mr. Dugan], Kate Price [Mrs. Dugan], Hugh Roman [Mr. Eppus], Bernard Randall [Mr. Kibbitzer]

First National Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by First National Pictures, Incorporated [An Alfred Santell Production; A First National Picture]. / Scenario by James T. O’Donohue, from the novel Show Girl by Joseph Patrick McEvoy. Costume design by Max Rée. Songs “Buy, Buy for Baby” by Joseph Meyer (music) and Irving Caesar (lyrics), and “Show Girl” by Edward Grossman and Ted Ward (music and lyrics). Cinematography by Sol Polito. Film editor, LeRoy Stone. Intertitles written by George Marion. Presented by Richard A. Rowland. / © 24 September 1928 by First National Pictures, Incorporated [LP25645]. Released 23 September 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version (at 6113 feet) by First National Pictures, Incorporated. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the Cineteca Italiana film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 12 January 2024.

References: Geduld-Birth p. ? : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.

 
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