Jazz Heaven
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Melville Brown
Cast: John Mack Brown (Johnny Mack Brown) [Barry Holmes], Sally O’Neil [Ruth Morgan], Clyde Cook [Max Langley], Joseph Cawthorne (Joseph Cawthorn) [Herman Kemple], Albert Conti [Walter Klucke], Blanche Frederici (Blanche Friderici) [Mrs. Langley], Henry Armetta [Tony], Ole M. Ness [Professor Rowland], J. Barney Sherry [John Parker], Adele Watson [Miss Dunn], Ray Cooke [the messenger], Kay Deslys [an apartment house tenant], Sherry Hall [the radio announcer], Ellinor Vanderveer [a floor show spectator], Roy Webb [the band leader]
Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation [RKO] production; distributed by RKO Distributing Corporation [A Melville Brown Production]. / Produced by William LeBaron. Associate producer, Myles Connolly. Screenplay by J. Walter Ruben and Cyrus Wood, from a screen story by Pauline Forney and Dudley Murphy. Art direction by Max Rée. Song “Someone” by Sidney Clare and Oscar Levant. Cinematography by Jack MacKenzie. Photographic effects by Lloyd Knechtel. Sound recording engineer, Hugh McDowell Jr. Film editors, George Marsh and Ann McKnight. / Photophone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format [?] and Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? RCA Photophone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / Full-sound film.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Keywords: Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 30 Decemeber 2024.
References: Jewell-RKO p. 23 : Variety-19291030 pp. 24, 51 : Website-IMDb.
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