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Sunny Side Up
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Feature film
Directed by David Butler

Cast: Janet Gaynor [Molly Carr], Charles Farrell [Jack Cromwell], Marjorie White [Bea Nichols], El Brendel [Eric Swenson], Mary Forbes [Mrs. Cromwell], Sharon Lynn [Jane Worth], Frank Richardson [Eddie Rafferty], Joe Brown [Joe Vitto], Jackie Cooper [Jerry McGinnis], Peter Gawthorne [Lake, the butler], Henry Armetta [an Italian husband], Mary Gordon [a grocery shopper], Mae Madison [Chorine], Alan Paull [Raoul], Ivan Linow [the big smiling man], Hector V. Sarno [a suitor], Symona Boniface [a woman in the hallucination montage], Georgia Clarke [a chorus girl], Miriam Hillman [a chorus girl], Bo Peep Karlin [a chorus girl], Margaret La Marr [a chorus girl], Helen Mann [a chorus girl], Catherine Navarro [a chorus girl], Joan Navarro [a chorus girl], Georgia Pembleton [a chorus girl], Beverly Royde [a chorus girl], Hazel Sperling [a chorus girl], Artye Folz [the chubby girl with glasses and braids], Douglas Greer [the freckle-faced boy], Jack Ray [a child dancer], Sherwood Bailey [a little boy], Jay Berger [a little boy], Ginger Connolly [the little boy], Ray Erlenborn [the little boy], George Ernest [a little boy], Dannie Mac Grant [a little boy], Dickie Kilby [a little boy], Buster Slaven [a little boy], Richard Smith [a little boy], Robert Smith [a little boy], Martha Lee Sparks [a little girl], Dick Succop [a little boy], Jackie Wilson [a little boy]

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Executive producer, Sol M. Wurtzel. Screenplay by [?] B.G. De Silva (Buddy G. DeSylva), Lew Brown and Ray Henderson?, with continuity by David Butler, from a screen story by B.G. De Silva (Buddy G. DeSylva), Lew Brown and Ray Henderson. Art direction by Harry Oliver. Costume design by Sophie Wachner. Choreography by Seymour Felix. Dance direction by Howard Jackson and Arthur Kay. Assistant director, Ad Schaumer. Cinematography by Ernest Palmer and John Schmitz. Sound recording by Joseph E. Aiken. Film editor, Irene Morra. Presented by William Fox. / [?] Grandeur wide-gauge format and? Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format. Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / [?] The film may have been also shot in the Grandeur wide-format process or through some magnification process such as or similar to Magniscope and presented in New York, New York, in late 1929. / Full-sound film.

Musical.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 27 January 2025.

References: Dardis-Keaton p. 182; Everson-American pp. 340, 341, 344; Limbacher-Feature p. 238; Maltin-Selected p. 197; Shipman-Cinema p. 104 : Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 4 December 1929, p. 15; Variety-19291030 p. 34 : Website-IMDb.

 
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