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Stepping Out
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Warren Doane
Cast: Charley Chase [Charley Chase], Thelma Todd [Thelma Chase, Charley’s wife], Anita Garvin [Anita, the flirting beautician]; Edgar Kennedy [the nightclub manager], Pat Harmon [the nightclub doorman], [?] ? [the hat check girl], [?] ? [Clarence], Baldwin Cooke [the waiter], [?] ? [the antagonized club patron], Eleanor Fredericks [a nightclub patron]
Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer All Talking Picture]. / Produced by Hal Roach. [?] From a screen story by Leo McCarey? Story editor, H.M. Walker. Song “My Wild Irish Rose” by Chauncey Olcott (music and lyrics). Photographed (cinematography) by Art Lloyd. Sound recording engineer, Elmer Raguse. Film editor, Richard Currier (Richard C. Currier). Presented by Hal Roach. / Released 2 November 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / Full-sound film.
Comedy.
Synopsis: Charley ditches his wife for an evening on the town.
Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive: the Vitaphone soundtrack discs are presumed lost.
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Keywords: Alcohol: Bottles, Flasks - Badges - Black Marias - Dancing - Drunkeness - Flirtation - Law enforcement: Policemen - Moths - Musical instruments: Banjos, Basses, Drums, Saxophones, Trumpets, Violins, Xylophones - Musicians - Nightclubs - Prohibition - Radios - Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 4 October 2023.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Edmonds-Todd p. 270; Maltin-Selected p. 62 : Website-IMDb : with additional information provided by Manish Patwari.
Home video: DVD.
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