Devil May Care
(1929) United States of America
Color/B&W : Eleven reels / 75 minutes
Directed by Sidney Franklin
Cast: Ramon Novarro [Armand de Treville], Dorothy Jordan [Leonie de Beaufort], Marion Harris [Countess Louise], John Miljan [Lucien DeGrignon], William Humphrey [Napoleon Bonaparte], George Davis [the groom], Clifford Bruce [Gaston], Lionel Belmore [the innkeeper], Ann Dvorak [Chorine], George Chandler [the timid royalist], John Carroll [a Bonapartist], Bob Kortman [a Bonapartist]
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by Hans Kraly (Hanns Kräly), with dialogue by Zelda Sears, from an adaptation by Richard Schayer of the play La Bataille des Dames by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouve. Production supervision by Albert Lewin. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons. Gowns (costume design) by Adrian (Gilbert Adrian). Songs “Charming” and “Shepherd Serenade” by Herbert Stothart (music) by Clifford Grey (lyrics). Music by Herbert Stothart + [William Axt]. Ballet music by Dimitri Tiomkin. Ballet staging by Madame Albertina Rasch. Stage director, J. Clifford Brooke. Cinematography by Merritt B. Gerstad. Sound recording by Douglas Shearer. Film editor, Conrad A. Nervig. / Premiere 22 December 1929 in New York, New York. Released 27 December 1929. / Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format (sound version) or Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format (silent version). Technicolor two-strip color process sequence. [?] Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system? / The film was released in the USA in a silent version. / Full-sound film.
Drama: Romance.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Keywords: Color cinematography - Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 11 October 2022.
References: Basten-Technicolor p. 170; Kobal-Fifty p. 49; Limbacher-Feature p. 62; Sweeney-Coming p. 154 : Website-IMDb.
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