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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], Marion Nixon (Marian Nixon) [Katherine Lane], Davey Lee [Little Pal], Holmes Herbert [Doctor Robert Merrill], Kenneth Thompson (Kenneth Thomson) [Arthur Phillips], Fred Kohler [Fred, Joe’s cellmate], Frank Campeau [the police officer], John Bowers [Doctor Burnes, a surgeon], Ernest Hilliard [a radio station employee], Arthur Hoyt [Mr. Jones], Claude Payton [the judge], Flora Finch [the radio station beauty expert], Jay Berger [a schoolboy], Mickey Martin [a schoolboy], Billy O’Brien [a schoolboy], Irvine Penvose [a schoolboy], Buddy Smith [a schoolboy], Jack Stoutenburg [a schoolboy]
Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated [A Warner Bros. Production]. / Screenplay by Joseph Jackson, with dialogue by Joseph Jackson, from a screen story by Darryl Francis Zanuck (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). Assistant director, William C. McGann. Cinematography by Lee Garmes. Sound recording engineer, George R. Groves. Film editor, Owen Marks. Intertitles written by De Leon Anthony. Presented by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. / © 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: 21 December 2024.
References: Best-Those pp. 155, 158; Limbacher-Feature p. 213 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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