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Kitty
(1929) England
B&W : Nine reels / 8100 feet
Directed by Victor Saville
Cast: Estelle Brody [Kitty Greenwood], John Stuart [Alex St. George], Dorothy Cumming [Mrs. St. George], Marie Ault [Sarah Greenwood], Winter Hall [John Furnival], Olaf Hytten [Leaper], Charles O’Shaughnessy [Reuben], E.F. Bostwick (Elwood Fleet Bostwick) [Doctor Dazely], Jerrold Robertshaw [the artist], Gibb McLaughlin [the electrician], Rex Maurice [Doctor Drake], Moore Marriott [a workman], Charles Ashton, Charles Levey
Burlington Films production; distributed by British International Pictures, Limited, through Wardour Films, Limited. / Produced by Victor Saville. Scenario by Violet S. Powell, Benn W. Levy and Marjorie Young, from the novel Kitty by Warwick Deeping. Art direction by Hugh Gee. Assistant director, Marjorie Gaffney. Cinematography by Karl Püth. / Released January 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was advertised in United States industry trades as a sound film in mid-April 1929. Dialogue sequences for the final three reels were reshot in May 1929 at the “new” RCA studios in New York, New York, to be added to the film for rerelease. The film was released in the United States by Sono Art-World Wide Pictures through Educational Film Exchanges, Incorporated, in June 1929; the film was released in a silent version, in a sound version with a Photophone soundtrack, and in a sound version with Vitaphone-compatible gramophone discs. The film was rereleased in the United Kingdom with its sound-film sequences in Photophone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and utilizing RCA Photophone sound-on-film synchronized sound system in December 1929. / Silent film.
Drama: Romance.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 17 September 2019.
References: Gifford-British n. 08503; Perry-British pp. 59, 60k, 352; Ryall-Blackmail p. 18 : Website-IMDb : with additional information provided by Anne Ramsden.
Home video: DVD.
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