The Shopworn Angel (1928 film)
| The Shopworn Angel | |
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| Directed by | Richard Wallace |
| Screenplay by | Howard Estabrook Albert S. LeVino Tom Miranda (intertitles) |
| Based on | Private Pettigrew's Girl 1918 story in The Saturday Evening Post by Dana Burnet |
| Starring | Nancy Carroll Gary Cooper |
| Cinematography | Charles Lang |
| Edited by | Robert Gessler |
| Music by | Ben Bergunker Andrea Setaro |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 80 minutes 7,377 feet (Sound Version) 7,112 feet (Silent Version)[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Shopworn Angel is a 1928 American part-talking sound romantic drama film directed by Richard Wallace starring Nancy Carroll and Gary Cooper.[2] The film was released by Paramount Pictures using the Western Electric sound-on-film system.[1] Like the majority of films in the early sound era, a silent version was made for theatres who hadn't converted to sound yet by trimming down the portions of the film that featured talking or singing.
Plot[edit]
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Cast[edit]
- Nancy Carroll as Daisy Heath
- Gary Cooper as William Tyler
- Paul Lukas as Bailey
- Roscoe Karns as the Dance Director
- Emmett King as The Chaplain
- Mildred Washington as Daisy's Maid
- Bert Woodruff as Bit Part (uncredited)
Music[edit]
The film featured a theme song entitled "A Precious Little Thing Called Love" that was by Lou Davis and J. Fred Coots.
Sound[edit]
This film was nearing completion when The Jazz Singer (1927) was released. Dialogue was written for Gary Cooper and Nancy Carroll to compete with "talking pictures". The last scene was a wedding and the only lines of dialogue spoken in the film are Cooper's "I do" and Carroll's "I do". In addition, Carroll is also heard singing the theme song.
Preservation status[edit]
This film survives in an incomplete form at the Library of Congress.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Progressive Silent Film List: The Shopworn Angel at silentera.com
- ^ "The Shopworn Angel". AFI. afi.com. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
External links[edit]
- The Shopworn Angel at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- The Shopworn Angel at the American Film Institute Catalog
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