Lady of the Pavements

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Lady of the Pavements
Poster - Lady of the Pavements.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byD. W. Griffith
Written bySam Taylor
Karl Vollmoller
Produced byJoseph M. Schenck
StarringLupe Vélez
William Boyd
Jetta Goudal
CinematographyKarl Struss
Music byIrving Berlin
Production
company
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • January 22, 1929 (1929-01-22)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (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.

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