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.

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	Lawrence Gray and Marion Davies. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Marion Davies [Marianne], George Baxter [André], Lawrence Gray [Stagg], Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards) [‘Soapy’], Benny Rubin [Sam], Scott Kolk [Lieutenant Frane], Robert Edeson [the general], Emil Chautard (Emile Chautard) [Père Joseph]

Cosmopolitan Productions production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Produced by [?] ? Hyman. Screenplay by Dale Van Every. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons. Costume design by Adrian (Gilbert Adrian). Songs “When I See My Sugar,” “Marianne” and “Oo-La-La-La-La” by Fred E. Ahlert (music) and Roy Turk (lyrics); “Hang On to Me” and “Just You, Just Me” by Jesse Greer (music) and Ray Klages (lyrics); and “Blondy” by Nacio Herb Brown (music) and Arthur Freed (lyrics). Cinematography by Oliver Marsh. Recording engineer, Ralph Shugart. Film editor, Basil Wrangell. Intertitles written by Joe Farnham (Joseph Farnham). / © 3 September 1929 by Cosmopolitan Productions [LP653]. Released 24 August 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / MGM production number 427. MGM release number 920. [?] Website-AFI lists the release length as 10,124 feet in seven reels. A silent version of the film was also prepared in seven reels (at 6563 feet), but was never released. [?] The silent version may predate the sound version’s production. The silent version featured a different cast, including Robert Castle [André], Oscar Shaw [Stagg], Robert Ames [‘Soapy’], Mack Swain [the general], and Oscar Apfel [the major]. The film ran at the Capitol Theatre in New York, New York, in October 1929. / Full-sound film.

[?] Comedy-Drama: Romance: World War I?

Synopsis: A pair of American soldiers fall in love with a French girl.

Survival status: Print exists in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Synchronized sound film - War: World War I (28 July 1914-11 November 1918): Soldiers

Listing updated: 27 August 2016.

References: Davies-Times pp. 101-102, 103, 105, 109, 116, 246 : Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2 December 1929, p. 13; Variety-19291030 p. 36 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.