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Say It with Songs
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Ten reels / 8324 feet
Directed by Lloyd Bacon

Cast: Al Jolson [Joe Lane], Marian Nixon [Katherine Lane], Davey Lee [Little Pal], Holmes Herbert [Doctor Robert Merrill], Kenneth Thompson [Arthur Phillips], Fred Kohler [Joe’s cellmate]

Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. / Screenplay by Joseph Jackson, with dialogue by Joseph Jackson, from a screen story by Darryl F. Zanuck and Harvey Gates. Songs “Little Pal,” “I’m in Seventh Heaven,” “Why Can’t You?” and “Used to You” by Al Jolson, Lew Brown, B.G. DeSylva and Ray Henderson (music and lyrics); “Back in Your Own Back Yard” and “I’m Ka-razy for You” by Al Jolson, Billy Rose and Dave Dreyer (music and lyrics); “Mem’ries of One Sweet Kiss” by Al Jolson and Dave Dreyer (music and lyrics). Sound recording engineer, George R. Groves. Intertitles written by De Leon Anthony. / © 2 August 1929 by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated [LP568]. Released 24 August 1929. / 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 5699 feet) by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, on 19 October 1929. / Full-sound film.

Drama: Musical.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Children

Listing updated: 1 April 2009.

References: Best-Those pp. 155, 158; Limbacher-Feature p. 213 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.

 
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