Charming Sinners
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 6184 feet
Directed by Robert Milton
Cast: Ruth Chatterton [Kathryn Miles], Clive Brook [Robert Miles], Mary Nolan [Anne-Marie Whitley], William Powell [Karl Kraley], Laura Hope Crews [Mrs. Carr], Florence Eldridge [Helen Carr], Montagu Love [George Whitley], Juliette Crosby [Margaret], Lorraine Eddy [Alice], Claude Allister [Gregson]
Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Screenplay by Doris Anderson, from the adaption by Doris Anderson of the play The Constant Wife by W. Somerset Maugham. Cinematography by Victor Milner. Sound recording engineer, Earl Hayman. Film editor, Verna Wills. / © 17 August 1929 by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation [LP614]. Premiered circa 6 July 1929 in New York, New York. Released 24 August 1929. / [?] Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and/or Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / Powell’s 38th film. The film was also released in the USA in a silent version in [?] seven? reels (at 6530 feet) by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation in 1929. / Full-sound film.
Drama.
Survival status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 10 January 2011.
References: Quirk-Powell pp. 22, 100, 101, 102 : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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