1928 film
| The Shopworn Angel |
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| Directed by | Richard Wallace |
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| Screenplay by | Howard Estabrook
Albert S. LeVino
Tom Miranda (intertitles) |
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| Based on | Private Pettigrew's Girl
1918 story in The Saturday Evening Post
by Dana Burnet |
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| Starring | Nancy Carroll
Gary Cooper |
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| Cinematography | Charles Lang |
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| Edited by | Robert Gessler |
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| Music by | Ben Bergunker
Andrea Setaro |
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Production
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Release dates |
- December 29, 1928 (1928-12-29) (New York City)
- January 12, 1929 (1929-01-12) (U.S.)
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Running time | 80 minutes
7,377 feet (Sound Version)
7,112 feet (Silent Version)[1] |
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| Country | United States |
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| Language | English |
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The Shopworn Angel is a 1928 American part-talking sound romantic drama film directed by Richard Wallace starring Nancy Carroll and Gary Cooper.[2] The film was released by Paramount Pictures using the Western Electric sound-on-film system.[1] Like the majority of films in the early sound era, a silent version was made for theatres who hadn't converted to sound yet by trimming down the portions of the film that featured talking or singing.
Plot
Cast
Music
The film featured a theme song entitled "A Precious Little Thing Called Love" that was by Lou Davis and J. Fred Coots.
Sound
This film was nearing completion when The Jazz Singer (1927) was released. Dialogue was written for Gary Cooper and Nancy Carroll to compete with "talking pictures". The last scene was a wedding and the only lines of dialogue spoken in the film are Cooper's "I do" and Carroll's "I do". In addition, Carroll is also heard singing the theme song.
Preservation status
This film survives in an incomplete form at the Library of Congress.
See also
References
External links
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