Lady of the Pavements
Lady of the Pavements | |
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Directed by | D. W. Griffith |
Written by | Sam Taylor Karl Vollmoller |
Produced by | Joseph M. Schenck |
Starring | Lupe Vélez William Boyd Jetta Goudal |
Cinematography | Karl Struss |
Music by | Irving Berlin |
Production company | |
Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Lady of the Pavements (UK title: Lady of the Night) is a 1929 American silent romantic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lupe Vélez, William Boyd, and Jetta Goudal. Griffith reshot the film to include a couple of musical numbers, making it a part-talkie.[1]
Plot[]
Disgusted that his fiancée, Diane (Jetta Goudal) has been cheating on him, Karl (William Boyd) says he'd rather marry a "street walker" than her. To get back at him, Diane arranges for Nanoni ("Little One") (Lupe Vélez), a singer at a sleazy bar, to pretend to be a Spanish girl, from a convent, to fool him.[2]
Cast[]
- Lupe Vélez as Nanon del Rayon
- William Boyd as Count Karl Von Arnim
- Jetta Goudal as Countess Diane des Granges
- Albert Conti as Baron Finot
- George Fawcett as Baron Haussmann
- Henry Armetta as Papa Pierre
- William Bakewell as A Pianist
- Franklin Pangborn as M'sieu Dubrey, Dance Master
Preservation[]
The Vitaphone sound-on-disc system was employed for sound sequences. Discs 6 and 8 are in the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Other sound discs to this film were donated by Arthur Lennig to the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection in Rochester, New York.
References[]
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Lady of the Pavements at silentera.com
- ^ Internet Movie Database
External links[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lady of the Pavements. |
- Lady of the Pavements at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- Lady of the Pavements poster
- Stills at moviessilently.com
- Still at silentfilm.org
- 1929 films
- American silent feature films
- Films directed by D. W. Griffith
- United Artists films
- Transitional sound films
- 1929 romantic drama films
- American romantic drama films
- American films
- Films produced by Joseph M. Schenck
- Films with screenplays by Sam Taylor (director)
- American black-and-white films
- Films set in France
- Films set in the 19th century
- Silent romantic drama film stubs