The Vagabond Lover
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 6217 feet / 69 minutes
Directed by Marshall Neilan
Cast: Rudy Vallee [Rudy Bronson], Sally Blane [Jean], Marie Dressler [Mrs. Whitehall], Charles Sellon [Officer Tuttle], Norman Peck [Swiftie], Danny O’Shea [Sam], Eddie Nugent [Sport], Nella Walker [Mrs. Tod Hunter], Malcolm Waite [Ted Grant], Alan Roscoe [the manager], The Connecticut Yankees
Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation [RKO] production; distributed by RKO Distributing Corporation. / Produced by William LeBaron. Associate producer, Louis Sarecky. Screenplay by James Ashmore Creeman. Assistant director, Wallace Fox. Art direction by Max Rée. Songs “A Little Kiss Each Morning and Heigh-Ho Everybody, Heigh-Ho!” by Harry M. Woods; “Piccolo Pete” by Phil Baxter; “I Love You, Believe Me, I Love You” by Ruby Cowan Philip Bartholomae and Phil Boutelje; “If You Were the Only Girl in the World” by Nat D. Ayer (words) and Clifford Gray (lyrics); “Nobody’s Sweetheart“ by Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman, Billy Meyers and Elmer Schoebel; “(Then, I’ll be Reminded of You” by Ken Smith (music) and Edward Heyman (lyrics); “Georgie Porgie” by Louis Herscherm Harold Raymond and Nat Simon; “I’m Just a Vagabond Lover” by Rudy Vallee and Leon Zimmerman. Cinematography by Leo Tover. / © 25 November 1929 by RKO Productions [LP970]. Released 1 December 1929. / Photophone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format. RCA Photophone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / Vallee’s film debut; Waite’s final film. / Full-sound film.
Comedy-Drama: Musical.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Keywords: Synchronized sound film - USA: New York: Long Island
Listing updated: 23 November 2011.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Jewell-RKO pp. 20, 23; Shipman-Cinema p. 104 : ClasIm-204 p. 44; Variety-19291030 pp. 24, 51; Variety-19291106 p. 21 : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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