|  | | Marilyn Miller (center). Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.
| Sally (1929) United States of America Color : 12 reels / 9277 feet Directed byJohn Francis DillonCast:Marilyn Miller [Sally], Alexander Gray [Blair Farquar], Joe E. Brown [Connie (the grand duke)], T. Roy Barnes [Otis Hooper], Pert Kelton [Rosie, his girlfriend],Ford Sterling [‘Pops’ Shendorff], Maude Turner Gordon [Mrs. Ten Brock], Nora Lane [Marcia, her daughter], E.J. Ratcliffe [John Farquar, Blair’s father], Jack Duffy [the old roué], Albertina Rasch Ballet First National Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed byFirst National Pictures, Incorporated. / Screenplay by Waldemar Young, with dialogue by Waldemar Young, from the musical playSally by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse (book), Jerome Kern (music) and Clifford Grey (lyrics). Art direction by Jack Stone. Costume design by Edward Stevenson. Songs “Sally” by Al Dubin, Joe Burke and Jerome Kern (music and lyrics); “Walking Off Those Balkan Blues,” “After Business Hours,” “All I Want to Do, Do, Do is Dance,” “If I’m Dreaming Don’t Wake Me Up Too Soon,” and “What Will I Do Without You?” by Al Dubin and Joe Burke (music and lyrics); “Wild Rose” by Jerome Kern (music) and Clifford Grey (lyrics); and “Look for the Silver Lining” by Jerome Kern (music) and B.G. DeSylva (lyrics). Music by Leo Forbstein. Dance direction by Larry Ceballos. Cinematography by Dev Jennings (J. Devereaux Jennings) and C. Edgar Schoenbaum. Film editor, LeRoy Stone. / © 11 February 1930 byFirst National Pictures, Incorporated [LP1084]. Premiered 23 December 1929 in New York, New York. General release, 12 January 1930. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Technicolor two-strip color process. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version byFirst National Pictures, Incorporated, in 1930. The play was previously filmed asSally (1925). / Full-sound film. Musical. Survival status: Print exists. Current rights holder: Public domain [USA]. Keywords:Synchronized sound film Listing updated: 18 January 2010. References:Bohn-Light p. 184 :Website-AFI. Home video:DVD. |