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Words and Music
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6500 feet / 81 minutes
Directed by James Tinling
Cast: Lois Moran [Mary Brown], David Percy [Phil Denning], Helen Twelvetrees [Dorothy Bracey], William Orlamond [Pop Evans], Elizabeth Patterson [Dean Crockett], Duke Morrison (John Wayne) [Pete Donahue], Frank Albertson [Skeet Mulroy], Tom Patricola [Hannibal], Bubbles Crowell [Bubbles], Ward Bond [Ward], John Griffith [a singer in “Stepping Along”], Charles Huff [a singer in “Stepping Along”], Richard Keene [a singer in “Stepping Along”], Arthur Springer [a singer in “Stepping Along”], Ches Kirkpatrick [a member of the Biltmore Quartet], Jack Wade [a song and dance performer], Collier Sisters [dancers], Betty Recklaw [a dancer], Darline Addison, Harry Albers, Iris Ashton, Julie Blake, Raymonda Brown, Eddie Bush, Lita Chevret, Marie Cooper, Adele Cutler, Diana Dare, Dot Darling, Lucille Day, Sayre Dearing, Carl Dial, Blanche Fisher, Vina Gale, Muriel Gardner, Tom Gentry, Paul Gibbons, Kenneth Gibson, June Glory, Dick Gordon, Harriet Griffith, Charlotte Hagaler, Kathryne Hankin, Earl Hughes, Helen Hunt, Katherine Irving, Lucile Jacques, Dorothy Jordan, Billy Kittridge, Paula Langlen, Mildred Laube, Mildred Livingston, Jean Lorraine, Helen Louise, Mae Madison, Peggy Malloy, Mavis May, Earl McCarthy, William Miller, Marion Mills, Lois Moran, Helen Parrish, Tom Patricola, David Percy, Paul Power, Sue Rainey, Emily Renard, Bobby Renee, Thelma Roberts, Maurice Salvage, Bill Seckler, Bernice Snell, John Sylvester, M. Troubetsky, Darleen Ver Jean, Marion Waldon, Dorothy Ward, Wilma Wray
Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Executive producer, Chandler Sprague. Screenplay by [?] Andrew Bennison?, with dialogue by Andrew Bennison, from a screen story by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan and Jack McEdwards. Costume design by Sophie Wachner. Songs “Stepping Along” by William Kernell (music and lyrics), “Too Wonderful for Words” by Dave Stamper (music) and Harlan Thompson (lyrics), and “Shadows” by Sidney Mitchell, Archie Gottler and Con Conrad (music and lyrics). Staging (associate director), Frank Merlin. Ensembles direction by Edward Royce. Musical direction by Arthur Kay. Assistant director, William Tinling. Cinematography by Charles G. Clarke, Charles Van Enger and Don Anderson. Sound engineers, Donald Flick (W.D. Flick) and Joseph Aiken. Film editor, Ralph Dixon. Presented by William Fox. / © 15 August 1929 by Fox Film Corporation [LP600]. Released 18 August 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / Wayne’s first screen credit. A silent version of the film was also prepared at 5745 feet. / Full-sound film.
Comedy-Drama: Musical.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 11 January 2024.
References: Eyman-Wayne p. 45; McGhee-Wayne p. 316 : Website-AFI.
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