Cabaret (1927 film)

Cabaret
Film poster
Directed by	Robert G. Vignola
Written by	Owen Davis (story) Becky Gardiner (scenario) John W. Conway (intertitles)
Produced by	Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky
Starring	Gilda Gray Tom Moore Chester Conklin
Cinematography	Harry Fischbeck
Production company	Famous Players–Lasky Corporation
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	March 26, 1927 (1927-03-26)
Running time	7 reels (6,947 feet)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Cabaret is a 1927 American silent crime drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky, distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by Robert G. Vignola, and starring Gilda Gray.^[1][2]

The film was considered a rival to Paramount's own Underworld released later in 1927. It was the winner of the Photoplay award in 1927.^[3]

Plot summary

Cast

• Gilda Gray as Gloria Trask
• Tom Moore as Detective Tom Westcott
• Chester Conklin as Jerry Trask
• Mona Palma as Blanche Howard (Mona was also known as Mimi Palmeri)
• Jack Egan as Andy Trask
• William Harrigan as Jack Costigan
• Charles Byer as Sam Roberts
• Anna Lavsa as Mrs. Trask

Preservation

With no prints of Cabaret located in any film archives,^[4] it is a lost film.^[5]

References

1. Progressive Silent Film List: Cabaret at silentera.com
2. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films:1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
3. Cabaret - IMDb, retrieved November 4, 2021
4. The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Cabaret. Retrieved November 18, 2016
5. Arne Andersen's: Lost Film Files, (Paramount Pictures) - 1927 Archived August 22, 2015, at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Cabaret at IMDb
• Cabaret at the TCM Movie Database
• Cabaret at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• Two lobby posters Cabaret; #1, #2