The Shopworn Angel (1928 film)
The Shopworn Angel | |
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Directed by | Richard Wallace |
Written by | Howard Estabrook Albert S. LeVino Tom Miranda (intertitles) |
Based on | Short story "Private Pettigrew's Girl" (1918) by Dana Burnet |
Starring | Nancy Carroll Gary Cooper |
Cinematography | Charles Lang |
Music by | Ben Bergunker Andrea Setaro |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 80 minutes 7,112 feet (silent version) 7,377 feet (sound version)[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Shopworn Angel is a 1928 American part-talking romantic drama film directed by Richard Wallace starring Nancy Carroll and Gary Cooper.[2] The film was released by Paramount Pictures in a silent version as well as a sound version using the Movietone sound-on-film system.[3] This film was owned by Turner Entertainment and was distributed through Warner Bros.
Cast[]
- Nancy Carroll as Daisy Heath
- Gary Cooper as William Tyler
- Paul Lukas as Bailey
- Roscoe Karns as the Dance Director
- Emmett King as The Chaplain
- Mildred Washington as Daisy's Maid
- Bert Woodruff as Bit Part (uncredited)
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.
References[]
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Shopworn Angel at silentera.com
- ^ "The Shopworn Angel". AFI. afi.com. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Shopworn Angel at silentera.com
External links[]
- 1928 films
- English-language films
- 1920s war drama films
- American black-and-white films
- American films
- American romantic drama films
- American war drama films
- Films based on short fiction
- Films directed by Richard Wallace
- Paramount Pictures films
- Films with screenplays by Howard Estabrook
- Transitional sound films
- World War I films
- Films set in 1917
- 1928 romantic drama films
- 1920s romantic drama film stubs